💙Prostate cancer

#1Family history[1]+339%

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Has your father or a brother had prostate cancer?

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#2Race and ancestry[2]2×

Black men in the US are diagnosed with prostate cancer 67% more often than White men, and die of it about twice as often, a gap seen at every age and in every US region, driven in real part by unequal access to screening and treatment rather than biology alone.

Which best describes your background? (US population statistics)

Same number, 4 answers: The cited source publishes only a White-versus-Black mortality comparison; it prints no group-specific figure for any of these groups, so none can be told apart from another and all four share this one placeholder rather than four identical numbers with no reason given.

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#3Body weight[3]≈+52%

A dose-response meta-analysis of six cohorts and 1.26 million men found each 5 kg/m² of BMI raised prostate cancer-specific mortality by 15%.

How would you describe your weight?

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#4Height[4]+17%

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Roughly how tall are you?

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#5Smoking[5]+24%

A pooled analysis of 51 studies and over 4 million men found current smokers died of prostate cancer 24% more often than people who had never smoked, with a dose-response by cigarettes a day; former smokers’ risk sat close to never smokers.

Do you smoke?

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#6Skipping PSA screening[6]−20%

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Are you up to date on PSA screening (a shared decision, usually from 50, or 40–45 with more risk)?

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#7Alcohol[7]+18%

A systematic review of case-control and cohort studies found high-volume drinkers developed 14% more prostate cancer than abstainers, and the highest-volume drinkers 18% more, with a dose-response starting from a fairly low intake; the review does not report a separate number for light drinking alone.

How much alcohol do you drink?

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#8Vitamin E supplements[8]+17%

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Do you take a vitamin E supplement?

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#9Diabetes[9]−14%

One of the few cancers where diabetes runs the other way: a meta-analysis of 45 studies and 8.1 million people found men with type 2 diabetes developed 14% less prostate cancer than men without it, most likely because diabetes lowers circulating testosterone.

What’s your blood sugar like?

Same number, 2 answers: The meta-analysis compared diagnosed type 2 diabetes with no diabetes; it did not split by how well it was controlled.

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#10Physical inactivity[10]−10%

A meta-analysis of 43 studies found the most physically active men developed 10% less prostate cancer than the least active (total physical activity, highest versus lowest); occupational activity carried more of the effect (19% less) than recreational activity alone.

How many days a week do you get 30+ minutes of exercise?

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