A lecturer in the College of Education for Pure Sciences / Department of Life Sciences, Assistant Professor Dr. (Zainab Nizar Jawad), obtained an acceptance to publish a scientific article entitled (The most important risk factors affecting prostate cancer) by the Scientific Articles Committee in the presidency of the University of Karbala after the article fulfilled all the conditions Publishing. (Professor Dr. Zainab Nizar Jawad) stated that prostate cancer is one of the most common types of cancer affecting men, which comes second after lung cancer as a cause of death among men in the United States and the European Union, and represents the sixth leading cause of all cancer deaths in Men All over the world, prostate cancer is on the rise in people over the age of 50. As for the most important risk factors for prostate cancer that play an important role in its occurrence and that increase the incidence rates, they are age, race, environment, smoking, obesity, family history, inflammation of the prostate gland and sexually transmitted diseases (STDs). Age is one of the most important factors that contribute to the risk of infection. Prostate cancer, as the incidence of prostate cancer rises rapidly after the age of fifty, and about 75% of patients diagnosed with prostate cancer are between the ages of 60 and 80 years and race, as the prevalence rates of prostate cancer appear higher among African-American men compared to white men, The prevalence of the disease among men of Asian descent is less than that of whites, and death rates in African American men remain more than double what it is in any other ethnic group. Such as the outputs of industry and means of transport such as polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons, especially in major cities or industrial cities, has a clear effect on the rise in all types of cancer, but smoking is a major cause C for different types of cancer.
