Study: Smoking Pot May Increase Risk of Testicular Cancer

Submitted by anthony on Mon, 2009-02-09 14:22

Article here. Excerpt:

'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.'

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I'm sorry but anything that's passed off as "news" by Rupert Murdoch's little indoctrination station has to be taken with a grain of salt. This is really nothing more than a cut-and-paste study which aids the republican agenda, which includes a vendetta against marijuana. At least they admit that this study doesn't actually prove anything in the article.

All I know is I ain't quittin'. Testicular cancer has a 99% cure rate anyway. Those are bettin' odds!

Evan AKA X-TRNL
Real Men Don't Take Abuse!

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Submitted by xtrnl on Mon, 2009-02-09 23:47