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- From: cam@castle.ed.ac.uk (Chris Malcolm)
- Newsgroups: sci.med
- Subject: Re: Circumcisions (Are they ever performed on adults ?)
- Message-ID: <28238@castle.ed.ac.uk>
- Date: 16 Nov 92 23:49:52 GMT
- References: <1992Nov15.060846.13787@ennews.eas.asu.edu> <BxsEr1.6DA@acsu.buffalo.edu> <1992Nov16.044856.1700@ennews.eas.asu.edu>
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- In article <1992Nov16.044856.1700@ennews.eas.asu.edu> prado@enuxhb.eas.asu.edu (Louis A. Prado) writes:
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- >Well considering that wives of uncircumcised men are much more likely to
- >contract cancer of the cervix,
-
- I was under the impression that _one_ study had suggested that the
- wives of uncircumsized men were _alightly_ more likely to get cancer;
- a study whose results have not been replicated, and which has been
- properly criticised for lack of control of other possibly causative
- factors. In other words, I thought this now had the status of an urban
- rumour. Anybody have the authoritative story?
-
- >and all the other problems previously
- >mentioned,
-
- I must have missed these postings: what other problems? I don't
- consider "it'll get dirty if you don't clean it" to be a problem.
- That's the kind of argument dentists used to use for removing all
- your teeth and fitting dentures.
-
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