The Coastline and the Weather
Age, family history, and ancestry dominate. None of the three is for sale, and no habit reverses any of them. The factors you can actually change are real, but their measured effect is far smaller — and the market has that order exactly upside down.
A chart distinguishes the coastline from the weather. These three keep ours from confusing the two.
Saying a factor is “linked” to something conveys almost nothing. Wherever the research supports it, we give the size of the effect alongside the claim — because a real association can still be far too small to change any decision you would make.
If prostate cancer runs in your family, that belongs in a consultation, not in a calculator on a website. It may change what a clinician recommends and when. We can tell you it matters. Only your doctor can tell you what it means for you.
Offering a man agency over something he has no agency over is the oldest move in this category, and it sells well precisely because the alternative is uncomfortable. We would rather say plainly that a factor is fixed. We sell no supplement and publish no testimonials.
Risk figures describe groups, and no group figure describes a person. Population-level risk factors cannot be added up into a number that applies to you, and this site publishes no calculator, score, or self-assessment that pretends otherwise. Having few risk factors is not protection, and having several is not a diagnosis. If you have noticed a change of any kind, that is a matter for examination regardless of what any risk profile suggests.
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If we have reported the magnitude of a risk factor incorrectly, or overstated how settled one is, send the reference.