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Men who go bald at an early age may be less likely to develop prostate cancer, new research suggests 

Scientists at the University of Washington School of Medicine and the Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Centre set out to explore the relationship between early-onset male pattern baldness and prostate cancer risk 

They analysed 999 cases of prostate cancer - all of whom were diagnosed between 2002 and 2005, aged 35 to 74 - and a further 942 healthy volunteers 

Publishing their findings in the journal Cancer Epidemiology, the researchers revealed that men with prostate cancer were less likely to have experienced hair loss at 30 years of age (19.8 per cent) than those without the disease (25.2 per cent) 

Meanwhile, men who had started going bald at age 30 were 29 per cent less likely to develop prostate cancer in the future than those with a full head of hair at that age 

The study authors concluded that early-onset male pattern baldness 'was associated with a reduced relative risk of prostate cancer' 

They called for further research to shed light on the reasons for the link 

Prostate cancer is the most common cancer in British men and tends to affect those over the age of 70