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- From: med50003@nusunix1.nus.sg (WANSAICHEONG KHIN-LIN)
- Newsgroups: sci.med
- Subject: Re: Circumcisions (Are they ever performed on adults ?)
- Message-ID: <1992Nov21.175248.21605@nuscc.nus.sg>
- Date: 21 Nov 92 17:52:48 GMT
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- Sigh. Why does the story about circumcisions and cervical cancer still
- go around? The original research was done in a Jewish community ages ago
- and they found that the rates of cervical cancer were fairly low. The
- postulate was that circumcision prevented build up of smegma and that
- this was responsible for the occurence of cervical cancer in women whose
- husbands were not circumcised.
-
- The problems with a study like that is that it ignored sexual practices
- which as David Rind has pointed out is important in the pathogenesis of
- cervical cancer.
-
- An interesting twist is that some studies have shown that some men have
- arginine rich protamine in their sperm and there is some tentative
- evidence that this may be involved in carcinogenesis. This has les to
- the concept of the `high risk male'.
-
- The merits of circumcision have to be debated on other grounds than
- cervical cancer.
-
- gervais
-