Wednesday, February 18, 2009

Marijuana Increases The Risk of Testicular Cancer

Marijuana Increases The Risk of Testicular Cancer

I found this article and I found it rather interesting...

Young men who began using marijuana as adolescents or who smoke pot at least once a week appear to be twice as likely to develop testicular cancer as those who never used the drug.

The association, as reported by researchers at the Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center in Seattle, was strongest with nonseminoma, an aggressive, fast-growing subtype of testicular cancer that typically strikes men between ages 20 and 35.

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