| Kasz216 said:
Outside which... Penis cancer I could only imagine would be like Prostate cancer. AKA an inevitability no matter what you do if you live long enough. Prostate cancer is a 1 in 11 chance.
I'll bring up the info again at a later date. About to head to work.
Note that the United States is the only country to have male circumsisions without religious regions in any specific number... and even then the number is shrinking because Doctors widely just know better now.
The US doesn't have much lower rates of Penile cancer then the rest of the world... despite being the only country that does this on a normal basis. |
Penile cancer, for the most part affects only those that have a foreskin. Not completely, mind you, but just about....out of about every 5000 penile cancer patients, only 1 of them will be circumcised - the rest will be uncircumcised. So, it's a little bit different compared to prostate cancer, in that it can be prevented via circumcision, whereas prostate cancer is an inevitability...unless, I guess you remove your prostate.
As for the complication rate listed (I'll read the article sometime tomorrow - can't really read papers right before bed) I assume he extrapolated his/her results, which led to that wide range of realistic complications?
Although drops in circumcisions have been seen over the past 5-6 years, I wouldn't attribute it towards Doctor's knowing "better"...in fact, going by this it appears that some Doctors are actually going the other way and going to encourage it as opposed to their former indifferent stance (also within this article - "The study found a very low rate of complications associated with newborn circumcisions; most were considered mild and no babies died").
I apologize if I'm incoherent or jumping around from topic to topic...it's quite late. I'll edit this or fix it tomorrow, if needed.
