Community | February 09, 2009 | 5 comments

Marijuana Linked to Aggressive Testicular Cancer

source: http://www.healthday.com/Article.asp?AID=623888

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Researchers found that men who smoked marijuana once a week or began to use the substance on a long-term basis while adolescents incurred double the risk for developing the fastest-spreading version of testicular cancer -- nonseminoma, which accounts for about 40 percent of all cases.
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5 comments // Marijuana Linked to Aggressive Testicular Cancer

  • krush_productions
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    • Bullshit, I'm cancer free, smoke ALL the time, and still have two working testicles.
      In the history of man's use of marijuana NO ONE has died. I know this is repeated a lot but ALCOHOL and TOBACCO kill more people every year and they're legal!

    • 3 years ago
  • idealist
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      idealist  

    • even if i had testicular cancer i would smoke weed to cure the emotional and phisical pain of my nut rot. (hehe nut rot)(not a funny term for people who have this condition) even if it was caused bye cannabis(which sounds like a republican pipe dream) i would still smoke it to ease my anguish. just like tobacco smokers with a hole in there throat(except thats a fact seen all the time)
      so suck it in america lifes short and you dont know whats gonna get you, so live life to the fullest,and smoke some ganja:)

    • 3 years ago
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  • JackHerer
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      JackHerer  
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    • Even if the study were comprehensive and definitive, which the authors admit it is not, would a 0.002% chance of getting this cancer compared to a 0.001% chance be a cause for alarm in the first place?

    • 3 years ago
  • egadams
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      egadams  

    • This is how news gets disjointed and jumbles, where rumors get started. Don't cherry pick an article to support your views. Convenient or just coincident this article comes out just after Michael Phelps news.

      Here's a piece from the same article supporting the opposite view:

      "No link was found between the drug and a less aggressive and more prevalent form of the disease, known as seminoma, which strikes 60 percent of testicular cancer patients.

      The findings were published in the Feb. 9 online issue of Cancer."

      http://www.healthday.com/Article.asp?AID=623888

    • 3 years ago
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