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- Title
Vasectomy Appears Unlikely to Raise Men's Chances of Developing Either Prostate or Testicular Cancer.
- Authors
Witwer, M.
- Abstract
This article reports that vasectomy is unlikely to increase men's risk of prostate or testicular cancer, or of any of a number of other cancers analyzed in two new large-scale studies conducted in the U.S. and in Denmark. In the American study, the overall relative risk of prostate cancer among vasectomized men was not significantly elevated, although the risk was somewhat higher among men who had a vasectomy before the age of 40 years. The Danish study, in which researchers analyzed a cohort of nearly 74,000 men who had vasectomies, showed no significant increase in the incidence of either testicular or prostate cancer. The researchers studied men with prostate cancer, as well as patients with large bowel cancer, lung cancer, malignant melanoma, bladder cancer, pancreatic cancer, kidney cancer, lymphomas, leukemia, testicular cancer and with a number of other types of cancer. To estimate the risk for each specific cancer among the vasectomized men relative to the men who had not had a vasectomy, the researchers used multiple logistic regression to control for the effects of age, years of education, race, marital status, number of hospitalizations, and cigarette smoking.
- Subjects
UNITED States; DENMARK; VASECTOMY; PROSTATE cancer; TESTICULAR cancer; STERILIZATION (Birth control)
- Publication
Family Planning Perspectives, 1995, Vol 27, Issue 2, p95
- ISSN
0014-7354
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.2307/2135918