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- From: rind@binoc.bih.harvard.edu (David Rind)
- Newsgroups: sci.med
- Subject: Re: Circumcisions (Are they ever performed on adults ?)
- Message-ID: <2122@hsdndev.UUCP>
- Date: 17 Nov 92 16:17:36 GMT
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- Organization: Beth Israel Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston Mass., USA
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- In article <BxtEv5.AEH@fig.citib.com> ghica@fig.citib.com
- (Renato Ghica) writes:
- >|> In article <BxsEr1.6DA@acsu.buffalo.edu>,
- oispeggy@ubvmsd.cc.buffalo.edu (Peggy Brown) writes:
- >|> Well considering that wives of uncircumcised men are much more likely to
- >|> contract cancer of the cervix, and all the other problems previously
-
- >Is this for real? Please direct us to unbiased medical references.
-
- I have not done an extensive review of the literature, but my impression
- is that there are problems with the studies that seemed to show a
- link between cervical cancer and lack of circumsision in male partners.
-
- Since a significant portion of cervical cancer cases are probably
- attributable to viral infections (papilloma or herpes viruses), cervical
- cancer is in part a sexually transmitted disease. This creates the
- possibility for confounding of the studies if being circumsized is
- associated with groups that have more or less sexual contacts than
- groups that tend not to be circumsized. There are other confounders
- as well, such as age of first sexual contact (where younger seems to
- imply higher risk for cervical cancer).
- --
- David Rind
- rind@binoc.bih.harvard.edu
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