What Doctors Don't Tell YouQ:Your article on the prostate cancer vasectomy link (WDDTY, vol 4, no 2) was of particular interest to me as a recovered testicular cancer patient. ...
Male sterilisation is a permanent form of contraception that tends to be favoured by men in the older age- groups. In the US, 20 per cent of men over 35 have had a vasectomy, and around a half-million procedures are carried out each year. It is...
* Make sure you know ALL the possible options available * To avoid feelings of regret, don’t make your decision at a time of stress, for example, during a relationship crisis * Know all the risks of surgery and anaesthesia * Tell your doctor of any...
Men who have had vasectomies are at greater risk of developing prostate cancer, according to two US studies of more than 73,000 men (The Lancet, 20 February 1993). ...
Men who have undergone a vasectomy have more than a five fold risk of developing prostate cancer. ...
Two kinds of therapies recently in the news have had very different coverage in the medical press, compared with the versions you and I are given in the daily newspapers. ...
Although vasectomies do not increase your risk of dying from heart disease, another study shows an increased risk of cancer, mainly of the lung, among those who'd had their vasectomies done 20 yea ...
Q My son, aged 38, was diagnosed with hepatitis C about five years ago. He tried Chinese herbs and acupuncture for some months, but with little success. He was offered the then experimental chemotherapy
