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New Study says Marijuana May Raise the Risk of testicular Cancer
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WASHINGTON - 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.
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/29099116/
Correct me if I'm wrong but aren't there several studies that have the exact opposite conclusion as this one? Did I miss something? I remember seeing citations in the other thread, one of my main purpose's in making this thread is to try and collate those sources to form a counter argument.
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Not interesting, bad. How are people supposed to continue their illicit lifestyles with impunity if shit like this is constantly forcing us to acknowledge reality?
Testicular cancer seems like a very odd thing for people to be getting though, that would seem to imply something in marijuana is acting as a androgen analog, which is not impossible but is not something you'd generally expect.
Edit: Or apparently I'm remembering wrong, it was prostate cancer that increased androgens cause, apparently no currently known substances increase testicular cancer risk, which would make marijuana doing it even more bizzare.
Lol it's funny because you need studies to validate your opposition to marijuana.
It's a good thing studies on this subject are so clear cut against it, amirite?
I'm just saying the timing is interesting.
Edit: Damn, beat!
Yet.
Also, George Carlin once said "Scientists have discovered that saliva causes stomach cancer, but only when swallowed in small amounts over a long period of time."
Well, a safer alternative to lighting up is to use a vaporizer.
Standard Deviation from median area income?
the "no true scotch man" fallacy.
Isn't pot more popular among rich urbans than poor rurals, like some sort of anti-meth?
Although, as you said, meth is sort of replacing it, especially among the poor rural demographic.
Sorry, had to say it.
Apparently marijuana also does wierd things to female reproductive systems, it has substances that act as estrogen-analogs, causing decreases in fertility and whatnot (come to think of it, this might be a reasonable mechanism for the ball thing as well).
Exactly.
This, ten thousand times.
Can I join the division of the Department of Health and Human Services that throws people in prison for fifteen years for eating too much McDonald's?
McDonald's is an all-American institution, you traitor.
But it's loyal to the pope.
Heart-disease is still the #1 killer in America.
Are you posting from a grassy knoll?
I think your sarcasm meter is broken.
On this subject it's hard to tell, since that's a real argument real people use. With disturbing regularity.
Vaporizers are probably the greatest invention ever.