Prostate Cancer Risk, Circumcision Linked in New Study

In recent years, the practice of routinely circumcising infants has begun to fall out of favor in the United States, in part due to a lack of palpable benefit to offset the pain inflicted on a newborn during the controversial procedure- but a new study measuring rates of circumcision and prostate cancer could influence the decisions of many parents who are on the fence as to whether to circumcise their baby boys.

Routine circumcision is a topic of hot debate, particular in the parenting community, as many feel the procedure is unnecessarily cruel or often done for cosmetic reasons rather than medical ones. (?I want him to look like his dad? or ?I don?t want him to get made fun of in the locker room? are often cited as assumed reasons new parents circumcise their sons.) But a new study published online in the medical journal Cancer?concerning the impact of circumcision on prostate cancer could prove to be a compelling datapoint in favor of the procedure.

Researchers looked at nearly 3,500 men and determined that those who had been circumcised had about a 15% lower risk of prostate cancer, if they?d been circumcised before they became sexually active. Circumcision is also known to reduce the risk of sexually transmitted infections (STIs), and earlier, larger meta-analysis noted a ?50% higher risk of prostate cancer in men with any history of STI.?

Study author?Jonathan L. Wright, MD, of the University of Washington in Seattle wrote:

?Infection and inflammation in the prostate may be important mechanisms that enhance the risk of subsequent development of prostate cancer in some men? There is growing evidence to support a role for STIs in prostate cancer etiology.?

Wright and co-authors continued:

?Recent work has also shown that circumcision reduces risk for acquiring STIs? We found a 15% reduction in the relative risk of prostate cancer in men circumcised before their first sexual intercourse, suggesting a biologically plausible mechanism through which circumcision may decrease the risk of prostate cancer.?

Would a lower risk of prostate cancer make you more likely to opt to circumcise your baby?

Source: http://www.inquisitr.com/203855/prostate-cancer-risk-circumcision-linked-in-new-study/

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