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<text id=93TT1050>
<title>
Mar. 01, 1993: Risky Business
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<history>
TIME--The Weekly Newsmagazine--1993
Mar. 01, 1993 You Say You Want a Revolution...
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<source>Time Magazine</source>
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THE WEEK, Page 17
HEALTH & SCIENCE
Risky Business
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<p>Two studies suggest a link between vasectomies and prostate cancer
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<p> Husbands who are struggling to put off that simple snip-and-stitch
vasectomy procedure their wives have been urging now have a
new excuse. According to a pair of reports in the Journal of
the American Medical Association, men who have had vasectomies
are 1 1/2 times as likely to develop prostate cancer as men
who have not had the operation. Harvard's Dr. Edward Giovannucci,
who directed both studies, speculates that the reduction in
seminal fluids to the prostate gland could trigger the development
of a malignancy. But no one knows for certain how that might
happen. Moreover, the link is relatively weak. Men who smoke,
by comparison, are 17 times as likely as nonsmokers to develop
lung cancer.
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