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THE NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF CHILD HEALTH AND HUMAN DEVELOPMENT
Author(s) -
ClaytonJones E.
Publication year - 1968
Publication title -
developmental medicine and child neurology
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.658
H-Index - 143
eISSN - 1469-8749
pISSN - 0012-1622
DOI - 10.1111/j.1469-8749.1968.tb02933.x
Subject(s) - citation , library science , national library , child health , psychology , political science , sociology , medicine , pediatrics , computer science
Recent epidemiological studies have raised important questions about a possible relationship between vasectomy and prostate cancer. Any relationship between vasectomy and prostate cancer, if proven, would be of great significance to individual and public health. An estimated 20% of men over 35 years of age in the United States have had a vasectomy, a highly effective method of family planning with low surgical risks. Prostate cancer is the most commonly diagnosed cancer in U.S. men and is second only to lung cancer in cancer mortality among men. An estimated 1 in 11 U.S. men will develop clinical prostate cancer in their lifetimes. Little is known about the etiology and pathogenesis of prostate cancer. In countries where the incidence of prostate cancer is low, a relationship of the magnitude that some studies have shown, even if real, would be of little significance to individual and public health.