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Show threadJay 🇺🇦Jun 3

@cmconseils

Forced birth is a crime against humanity and christo-fascism must fall.

But I never see the cancer risk mentioned when tubal ligation (which lowers the risk of a number of cancer types but comes with slightly greater risks during and after surgery) and vasectomy are being compared.
Vasectomy increases the risk of prostate cancer by 15%.
People need to be fully informed to make their health decisions (and governments need to stay the fuck away from these decisions).

Show threadWeird Socks
@Soulshine
I've looked through several article results.
(Example: https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC5710573/)
I found nothing reporting 15% or even closer. Where did you find that?
The Association Between Vasectomy and Prostate Cancer: A Systematic Review and Meta-analysis

Despite 3 decades of study, there remains ongoing debate regarding whether vasectomy is associated with prostate cancer. To determine if vasectomy is associated with prostate cancer. The MEDLINE, EMBASE, Web of Science, and Scopus databases were ...

PubMed Central (PMC)
Jun 3 at 4:33amWeb
Show threadJay 🇺🇦Jun 3
@ohmu
This one's from 2020.
Oxford University Press
Journal of the National Cancer Institute
https://academic.oup.com/jnci/article/112/1/71/5497506?guestAccessKey=3a9c449b-645d-40ba-bbc4-c2f05e4eda4d
Show threadWeird SocksJun 3
@Soulshine
Interesting: An increase in prostate cancer and a decrease in all other cancers.
Show threadJay 🇺🇦Jun 3
@ohmu
So there are two obvious factors:
Men who get vasectomies are also more likely to get PSA screenings which explains part of the 15% elevation.
But they also smoke and drink less which explains part of the 9% lower risk in other cancers.