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- <text id=93TT1050>
- <title>
- Mar. 01, 1993: Risky Business
- </title>
- <history>
- TIME--The Weekly Newsmagazine--1993
- Mar. 01, 1993 You Say You Want a Revolution...
- </history>
- <article>
- <source>Time Magazine</source>
- <hdr>
- THE WEEK, Page 17
- HEALTH & SCIENCE
- Risky Business
- </hdr>
- <body>
- <p>Two studies suggest a link between vasectomies and prostate cancer
- </p>
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- <p> Husbands who are struggling to put off that simple snip-and-stitch
- vasectomy procedure their wives have been urging now have a
- new excuse. According to a pair of reports in the Journal of
- the American Medical Association, men who have had vasectomies
- are 1 1/2 times as likely to develop prostate cancer as men
- who have not had the operation. Harvard's Dr. Edward Giovannucci,
- who directed both studies, speculates that the reduction in
- seminal fluids to the prostate gland could trigger the development
- of a malignancy. But no one knows for certain how that might
- happen. Moreover, the link is relatively weak. Men who smoke,
- by comparison, are 17 times as likely as nonsmokers to develop
- lung cancer.
- </p>
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- </body>
- </article>
- </text>
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