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Current Events => General Discussion => Topic started by: djones520 on February 08, 2009, 11:22:49 PM
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http://www.javno.com/en/lifestyle/clanak.php?id=232267
Marijuana use may increase the risk of developing testicular cancer, in particular a more aggressive form of the disease, according to a U.S. study published on Monday.
The study of 369 Seattle-area men ages 18 to 44 with testicular cancer and 979 men in the same age bracket without the disease found that current marijuana users were 70 percent more likely to develop it compared to nonusers.
The risk appeared to be highest among men who had reported smoking marijuana for at least 10 years, used it more than once a week or started using it before age 18, the researchers wrote in the journal Cancer.
Stephen Schwartz of the Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center in Seattle, one of the researchers, said the study was the first to explore marijuana's possible association with testicular cancer.
"This is the first study to look at this question, and by itself is not definitive. And there's a lot more research that would have to be done in order to be more confident that marijuana use really is important in a man's risk of developing testicular cancer," Schwartz said in a telephone interview.
The study found the increased risk appeared to be in the form called nonseminoma testicular cancer. It accounts for 40 percent of cases and can be more aggressive and more difficult to treat, Schwartz said.
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Very, very few of them have anything to worry about.
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Very, very few of them have anything to worry about.
True....but look on the bright side. If we legalize pot and encourage them to smoke the hell out of it, between nut-cancer and abortions, they'll soon go away.
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True....but look on the bright side. If we legalize pot and encourage them to smoke the hell out of it, between nut-cancer and abortions, they'll soon go away.
...don't forget all the gay "marriages". :fuelfire: