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Vasectomy and Prostate Cancer Risk in the European Prospective Investigation Into Cancer and Nutrition (EPIC).

Karl Smith1, Byrne1, Jose Maria Castaño1

  • 1Karl Smith Byrne, Hans Lilja, Aurora Perez-Cornago, Timothy J. Key, and Ruth C. Travis, University of Oxford, Oxford; Kay-Tee Khaw, School of Clinical Medicine, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, Konstantinos K. Tsilidis and Elio Riboli, Imperial College London, London, United Kingdom; Jose Maria Castaño, Maria Dolores Chirlaque, and Carmen Navarro, Murcia Regional Health Council; Maria Dolores Chirlaque, IMIB-Arrixaca, Murcia; Jose Maria Castaño, Maria Dolores Chirlaque, Eva Ardanaz, Miguel Rodríguez-Barranco, Nerea Larrañaga, Carmen Navarro, and Maria José Sánchez, Center for Biomedical Research Network for Epidemiology and Public Health, Madrid; Antonio Agudo, Catalan Institute of Oncology-IDIBELL, Barcelona, Spain; Eva Ardanaz, Navarra Institute for Health Research, Pamplona; Miguel Rodríguez-Barranco and Maria José Sánchez, Universidad de Granada, Granada; Nerea Larrañaga, Public Health Division of Gipuzkoa, Regional Government of the Basque Country, Donostia, Spain; Hans Lilja, Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center, New York, NY; Lund University, Malmö, Sweden; Heiner Boeing, German Institute of Human Nutrition, Potsdam-Rehbrücke; Rudolf Kaaks, German Cancer Research Center, Heidelberg, Germany; Anja Olsen and Anne Tjønneland, Danish Cancer Society Research Center, Copenhagen; Kim Overvad, Aarhus University, Aarhus, Denmark; Sabine Rohrmann, University of Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland; Konstantinos K. Tsilidis, University of Ioannina School of Medicine, Ionnina, Greece, and Mattias Johansson, International Agency for Research on Cancer, Lyon, France.

Journal of Clinical Oncology : Official Journal of the American Society of Clinical Oncology
|April 5, 2017
PubMed
Summary

This study found no increased risk of prostate cancer, including aggressive forms, or death from prostate cancer in men who had a vasectomy. Vasectomy is a safe male sterilization method regarding prostate cancer incidence and mortality.

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