A recent study implies that a man’s chances of developing prostate cancer might be calculated by the length of his fingers. The study compared finger length in men, mostly concentrating on the length of the index finger in relation to the ring finger.
Researchers compared 3000 healthy men to 1500 prostate cancer sufferers. In the study, they found that over 50 per cent of the men had a longer ring finger. Those men contracted prostate cancer at nearly an identical rate as the men who had equally long fingers.
The third group, men with longer index fingers, had a risk that was about 30 per cent lower than all the rest. The reason has to do with the effects of hormones, men who have less testosterone have longer index fingers than men who have higher amounts of testosterone. Lowered exposure to testosterone may help protect against the development of prostate cancer, it is believed.
The results in men of 60 was more dramatic, as they were found to be around 87 per cent less likely to be among the prostate cancer sufferers if they had longer index fingers. Whoever thought to examine the fingers must be congratulated on finding what seems, at first glance, to be an illogical indicator.
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