Men with long ring finger ‘three times more likely to get prostate cancer’
July 28th, 2010 Posted in prostate cancer risksDoctors at the Gachon University Gil Hospital, in Incheon, South Korea concluded Men with a long ring finger could be three times more likely to develop prostate cancer, reports the Daily Mail.
They found that the risk increases if the ring finger on the right hand is significantly longer than the index finger next to the thumb. But men whose ring fingers are only slightly longer, or are about the same length, are much less likely to get the disease.
The findings open up the possibility of screening men with longer fingers at an early age for signs of cancer.