Will Erectile Dysfunction Increase the Risk of Prostate Cancer

Erectile Dysfunction Clinical Trial

— EDtoPC  

Official title:

Erectile Dysfunction and the Future Risk of Prostate Cancer: a Population-based Longitudinal Follow-up Study With Concurrent Double Comparison Cohorts

Clinical Trial Details — Status: Completed

Administrative data

• NCT number: NCT03009123
• Other study ID #: KTGH-ASIAU-obs-erectile
• Status: Completed
• Phase: N/A
• First received: December 28, 2016
• Last updated: May 8, 2017
• Start date: January 2016
• Est. completion date: May 6, 2017

Study information

• Verified date: May 2017
• Source: Kuang Tien General Hospital
• Contact: n/a
• Is FDA regulated: No
• Study type: Observational

Clinical Trial Summary

The rationale for investigating the hypothesis that there is an association between erectile dysfunction (ED) and the subsequent development of prostate cancer is based on three assumptions: 1) baseline ED is common in most if not all of the cross-sectional studies in men with prostate cancer; 2) the development of ED and prostate cancer may have certain shared common risk factors; and 3) the use of testosterone for the treatment of ED has been suspected to be associated with prostate cancer development. Controversy exists over whether men with ED have an increased risk of subsequent prostate cancer. Few studies have evaluated the risk of developing prostate cancer for men with ED. The investigators, therefore, conducted a population-based longitudinal study with eight years' follow-up to examine this association and to evaluate the magnitude of the risk.

Recruitment information / eligibility

• Status: Completed
• Enrollment: 21558
• Est. completion date: May 6, 2017
• Est. primary completion date: March 15, 2017
• Accepts healthy volunteers: No
• Gender: Male
• Age group: 50 Years to 99 Years

Eligibility

Inclusion Criteria:

• men 50 years and older with no pre-existing prostate cancer

Exclusion Criteria:

• less than 50 years old

• pre-existing prostate cancer

Related Conditions & MeSH terms

• Erectile Dysfunction
• Prostatic Neoplasms

Intervention

Other:
• Erectile dysfunction
Patients with ED are considered belonging to the exposure group.

Locations

Country	Name	City	State
Taiwan	Kuang Tien General Hospital	Taichung

Sponsors (3)

Lead Sponsor	Collaborator
Kuang Tien General Hospital	Asia University, National Central University, Taiwan

Country where clinical trial is conducted

Taiwan, 

References & Publications (12)

Chou PS, Chou WP, Chen MC, Lai CL, Wen YC, Yeh KC, Chang WP, Chou YH. Newly diagnosed erectile dysfunction and risk of depression: a population-based 5-year follow-up study in Taiwan. J Sex Med. 2015 Mar;12(3):804-12. doi: 10.1111/jsm.12792. Epub 2014 Dec 5. — View Citation

Kok VC, Horng JT, Chang WS, Hong YF, Chang TH. Allopurinol therapy in gout patients does not associate with beneficial cardiovascular outcomes: a population-based matched-cohort study. PLoS One. 2014 Jun 4;9(6):e99102. doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0099102. eCollection 2014. — View Citation

Kok VC, Horng JT, Huang HK, Chao TM, Hong YF. Regular inhaled corticosteroids in adult-onset asthma and the risk for future cancer: a population-based cohort study with proper person-time analysis. Ther Clin Risk Manag. 2015 Mar 26;11:489-99. doi: 10.2147/TCRM.S80793. eCollection 2015. — View Citation

Kok VC, Horng JT, Huang JL, Yeh KW, Gau JJ, Chang CW, Zhuang LZ. Population-based cohort study on the risk of malignancy in East Asian children with juvenile idiopathic arthritis. BMC Cancer. 2014 Aug 29;14:634. doi: 10.1186/1471-2407-14-634. — View Citation

Kok VC, Horng JT, Hung GD, Xu JL, Hung TW, Chen YC, Chen CL. Risk of Autoimmune Disease in Adults with Chronic Insomnia Requiring Sleep-Inducing Pills: A Population-Based Longitudinal Study. J Gen Intern Med. 2016 Sep;31(9):1019-26. doi: 10.1007/s11606-016-3717-z. Epub 2016 Apr 29. — View Citation

Kok VC, Horng JT, Lin HL, Chen YC, Chen YJ, Cheng KF. Gout and subsequent increased risk of cardiovascular mortality in non-diabetics aged 50 and above: a population-based cohort study in Taiwan. BMC Cardiovasc Disord. 2012 Nov 21;12:108. doi: 10.1186/1471-2261-12-108. — View Citation

Kok VC, Sung FC, Kao CH, Lin CC, Tseng CH. Cancer risk in East Asian patients associated with acquired haemolytic anaemia: a nationwide population-based cohort study. BMC Cancer. 2016 Feb 4;16:57. doi: 10.1186/s12885-016-2098-3. — View Citation

Kok VC, Tsai HJ, Su CF, Lee CK. The Risks for Ovarian, Endometrial, Breast, Colorectal, and Other Cancers in Women With Newly Diagnosed Endometriosis or Adenomyosis: A Population-Based Study. Int J Gynecol Cancer. 2015 Jul;25(6):968-76. doi: 10.1097/IGC.0000000000000454. — View Citation

Lee PH, Kok VC, Chou PL, Ku MC, Chen YC, Horng JT. Risk and clinical predictors of osteoporotic fracture in East Asian patients with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease: a population-based cohort study. PeerJ. 2016 Oct 27;4:e2634. eCollection 2016. — View Citation

Resnick MJ, Barocas DA, Morgans AK, Phillips SE, Chen VW, Cooperberg MR, Goodman M, Greenfield S, Hamilton AS, Hoffman KE, Kaplan SH, Paddock LE, Stroup AM, Wu XC, Koyama T, Penson DF. Contemporary prevalence of pretreatment urinary, sexual, hormonal, and bowel dysfunction: Defining the population at risk for harms of prostate cancer treatment. Cancer. 2014 Apr 15;120(8):1263-71. doi: 10.1002/cncr.28563. Epub 2014 Feb 7. — View Citation

Sairam K, Kulinskaya E, Boustead GB, Hanbury DC, McNicholas TA. Prevalence of undiagnosed prostate cancer in men with erectile dysfunction. BJU Int. 2002 Feb;89(3):261-3. — View Citation

Saitz TR, Serefoglu EC, Trost LW, Thomas R, Hellstrom WJ. The pre-treatment prevalence and types of sexual dysfunction among patients diagnosed with prostate cancer. Andrology. 2013 Nov;1(6):859-63. doi: 10.1111/j.2047-2927.2013.00137.x. Epub 2013 Oct 11. — View Citation

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Outcome

Type	Measure	Description	Time frame	Safety issue
Primary	Incident prostate cancer		through study completion, up to 7 years