Prostate hyperplasia is a common cause of prostate cancer.

Prostatic hyperplasia is usually referred to as prostatic hyperplasia, elderly men may get prostatic hyperplasia.

With the increase of male age, the incidence of prostatic hyperplasia will gradually increase, because older men due to the gradual degradation of organ function in the body, the body sex hormone level imbalance, affecting the growth of prostate cells, proliferation, apoptosis, thus causing prostatic hyperplasia. At the same time, for older men, may be accompanied by diabetes, hypertension and other underlying diseases, these diseases easily lead to atherosclerosis, and then affect the blood supply of prostate parts, leading to prostate hyperplasia.