Abstract
Prostate cancer is a significant public health concern. Worldwide incidence data from 2020 indicates approximately 1.4 million new cases diagnosed annually, and mortality data indicates over 375,000 annual deaths. Trends indicate increasing incidence and mortality. Clearly, improved prostate cancer prevention, early detection and treatment are needed. Better primary prostate cancer prevention is the most crucial.
Occult infections have been implicated in many different chronic diseases. Due to this relationship between chronic disease and chronic infection, the authors have been promoting advanced screening for chronic occult infections using DNA amplification/detection methods such as Polymerase Chain Reaction (PCR) for over 5 years. After conducting over 100 PCR-based infection tests in clinic patients, the authors have observed a very strong correlation between patients with known prostate cancer and the presence of pathogens associated with chronic prostatitis. Published literature confirms that the same relationship has also been noted by others.