What Is The Correlation Between Prostate Cancer And Herpes Infection?

Posted on Sat, 6 May 2017

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Question : Is there a relationship between prostate cancer and recurrence of herpes exhibited by redness/swelled patches around anal area? Herpes was contracted around 1990. Symptoms rarely occur before.

Answered by Dr. Indranil Ghosh (6 hours later)

Brief Answer:
generally not

Detailed Answer:
Hi
Thanks for your query.

Usually there is no correlation between prostate cancer and herpes. But if it is advanced prostate cancer and/or chemotherapy has been applied then it can reduce body's immunity and cause herpes.

Probably the herpes infection here is unrelated.

Hope this helps.
Regards

Above answer was peer-reviewed by : Dr. Chakravarthy Mazumdar