The hospital MRIs have revealed the attack has left little penile tissue around the injury.

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Penile length alone can explain over 15% of the between-country variation in 1985 GDP.

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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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Those treatments sometimes included the use of a "penile plethysmograph" that gauged the responses of each person's genitals to sexually explicit pictures displayed to determine his sexual arousal patterns, the court said.

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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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Ms Sheehy, as if struggling to contain a thrashing whale, tries as far as she can to talk about golf and male bonding and inner peace, but in the last section she gives in completely with a romp through Viagra, testosterone patches, penile injections and vacuum pumps, as if all that has gone before is merely foreplay.

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