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Health Tests Men Need - The length of a man's index finger may indicate his prostate cancer risk, a recent study conducted by The University of Warwick and the Institute of Cancer Research found. The research findings were published in the British Journal of Cancer, causing a buzz in the medical community and among men concerned about their prostate health. According to the study, if your index finger is longer than your ring finger, you are at a 33% lower risk for prostate cancer than when the hand pattern is reversed; ring finger longer than index finger. The length of the first and third finger is set in the womb. Researchers over a 15-year period collected data on finger length in 1,524 patients with prostate cancer as well as 3,044 healthy men. They found that more than half the men had the more common pattern of shorter index to ring finger. Health Tests Men Need Men with both fingers of the same length had the same risk as those with shorter index to ring finger....