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by LotusFlower | February 8, 2009 at 10:49 pm
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Cannabis has increasingly been appearing in the health columns for it's possible positive health uses medicinally but this new report says that regular cannabis use doubles the risk of men developing testicular cancer.
It's the first study to look at this possible link between marijuana and testicular cancer and the even more worrying factor is that the link seems to be with the most aggressive form of this cancer.
Frequent or long-term marijuana use may raise a man's risk of testicular cancer, American research suggests.
The study of 369 men, published in the journal Cancer, found being a regular marijuana user doubled the risk compared to those who never smoked it.
The results suggest that it may be linked to the most aggressive form of the cancer.
A spokesman for Cancer Research UK said that no previous studies had found a link between marijuana and the disease.
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at 21:39 on February 9th, 2009
Just another bogus study. See this nowpublic article which punches holes in the research.
"Flawed study inflates testicular cancer-risk from cannabis"