In addition, the academy reckons that for every 909 circumcisions one man will be spared penile cancer.

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Others, such as a decrease in penile cancer in later years, remain controversial.

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Over the years he has taken cases involving penile implants, Vioxx, drug-coated stents, breast implants, fen-phen, pollution-spewing fertilizer plants, an Alka-Seltzer ingredient and hog farms.

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Suggesting we should routinely remove a healthy part (foreskin) from newborn males because it potentially decreases the already miniscule risk of them getting penile cancer later in life is a serious ethical issue.

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For the same reason we do not remove healthy breast tissue from newborn males (and, breast cancer in men is more common than penile cancer in men), we should not remove penile cancer from newborn males.

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Penile cancer is incredibly rare.

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