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From: era@ncar.ucar.edu (Ed Arnold)
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Subject: Vasectomy (Was: Re: Babies)
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Date: 31 Jan 91 03:21:04 GMT
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Index Number: 13282

In article <16757@bunker.UUCP> Alan.Forro@f3.n157.z1.fidonet.org writes:
>Index Number: 12824
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>We've talked about vasectomy also.  I just heard about a study saying 
>that men with vasectomies has about double the risk of prostate cancer. 
>That certainly gives me pause, as I am already in remission from 
>Hodgekins Disease, and I don't want to tempt fate anymore.

I saw this in the press too, and called the American Foundation for
Urologic Disease (800-242-AFUD) out of curiosity.  What they told me
was that this study had not actually been published as of now, they
couldn't give me the title/author until it had been published, and that
the study was not done by MDs.  They seemed skeptical.  Why/how the
press picked this thing up and trumpeted it all over the country,
before the paper has even been published and reviewed, is a mystery to me.
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era@ncar.ucar.edu