Marijuana May Raise Testicular Cancer Risk

[The Straight Story]

Marijuana use may increase the risk of developing testicular cancer, in particular a more aggressive form of the disease, according to a U.S. study published on Monday.

The study of 369 Seattle-area men ages 18 to 44 with testicular cancer and 979 men in the same age bracket without the disease found that current marijuana users were 70 percent more likely to develop it compared to nonusers.

The risk appeared to be highest among men who had reported smoking marijuana for at least 10 years, used it more than once a week or started using it before age 18, the researchers wrote in the journal Cancer.

Stephen Schwartz of the Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center in Seattle, one of the researchers, said the study was the first to explore marijuana's possible association with testicular cancer.

"This is the first study to look at this question, and by itself is not definitive. And there's a lot more research that would have to be done in order to be more confident that marijuana use really is important in a man's risk of developing testicular cancer," Schwartz said in a telephone interview.

http://www.javno.com/en/lifestyle/clanak.php?id=232267

[Deja Q]

1. And do we want Michael Phelps to breed? Or the Duggars not to continue to do so?

[Drunken Irishman]

2. Is it me or does everything raise the cancer risk?

Drinking Coke.
Eating hamburger.
Talking on the phone.

Blah, blah, blah.

I'm doing all three of those right now while also sticking my head in a microwave!

[Common Sense Party]

27. Depends on the week.

Half the stuff increases cancer risk this week. Next week, the same things will be shown to lower it.

[Zhade]

29. Being alive?

:p

[hobbit709]

3. Right

In that case me and most of my friends should have died at least 20 years ago. The only person I personally know that had testicular cancer doesn't smoke.

[Warren DeMontague]

4. Let me guess: Funded by the government.

And watch it get flogged to death by the media, the same media which buried the studies saying pot can actually reduce cancer risk in some cases.

[havocmom]

32. and the liquor industry

more 'n likely ;)

I'm so old, I remember hearing it would make ya pregnant. Now, it's cancer of the testicles? Hmmmm, full circle booga booga fear mongering?

Any body else thinkin of J Men Forever or did I just hallucinate that movie?

[Warren DeMontague]

56. The liquor industry, Never made sense to me. Back when I still drank & smoked pot

I liked nothing more than to do 'em together.

:shrug:

[rsmith6621]

5. Al- Key-Hol Kills Your Liver....

.......Everything fun has a consequence...

[Drunken Irishman]

6. Does masturbation?

I mean, I guess if you're a chronic masturbator, but most us normies aren't.

[leftstreet]

7. But masturbation reduces prostate cancer risk

So it all evens out

Does anyone really trust these dubious studies?

[Mike 03]

12. That's another good example.

They used to say it reduced a man's risk; now they say it raises the risk.

[BeyondGeography]

20. If you get stoned and masturbate it's a wash

factor in munchies and you're down a few points again.

[MrPerson]

21. And if you jerk off and don't smoke pot?

[leftstreet]

23. Less likely to get the munchies, so it's more of a win

er...

[BeyondGeography]

24. Depends on who you read, I guess

I know which theory I favor.

[kentauros]

40. Then you're a-head

:P

[elocs]

8. Science, schmience. Pro-tokers will tell you that weed is safer than water. n/t

[Zhade]

30. Science has already shown that pot shrinks tumors.

So chew on that.

[Octafish]

37. May grow brain cells, too.

http://www.newscientist.com/article/dn8155

Alcohol, OTOH, kills brain cells.

Just sayin', Sgt. Stedanko.

[Kellen RN]

38. Also may kill MRSA, you know the "super-bug"?

http://www.webmd.com/news/20080904/marijuana-chemicals-may-fight-mrsa

No medical value though... I trust our government more every day. They always know what they are talking about.

[walldude]

39. Yeah we will. We'll also tell you that there are scientific studies

that claim that there is no such thing as Global Warming.

The difference between what you would call "tokers" and straight people is that tokers just don't give a flying fuck anymore. We've been lied to so many times we've given up on getting any kind of honesty from the government, the scientific community and the "straights". To us you are all full of shit.

Let's see what kind of wonderful things have the straights said about us over the years.

Pot makes you a paranoid freak. Lie.
Pot is addicting. Lie
Pot will make you a sexual deviant. Lie.
Pot is a "gateway" drug. Lie. (Unless it's the gateway to Twinkies.)
Pot will make you think you can fly, and you will jump off a building. (one of my all time favorites) Lie.
Pot causes testicular cancer. Lie.

I know I left out a lot but I'm too stoned to care. So take your science schmience and stick it up your hineyence.

[Kellen RN]

43. Funny how there are several links to actual science posted

by potheads.

[Zhade]

52. Yeah. Funny how science backs up our claims about mj's beneficial uses, eh?

So tired of the arrogantly ignorant - on this board, and in the real world.

[Lint Head]

9. That's like saying aspirin use leads to heroin use.

You can prove that most heroin users have used and probably still use aspirin.
The numbers don't make since even scientifically. By itself is Not definitive and should Not be enough to scare anyone.
This is more anti marijuana B.S.
:dem:

[ShortnFiery]

10. The findings of ONE study does not make Scientific Fact.

;) Did they CONTROL for how much Marijuana and the amount of THC absorbed within these men? Did they control for cigarette smoking that would be a clear concomitant variable? The FINDINGS were polling data and did not have any other controls for contributing variables?

This study does not appear sound, on face value alone (small sample size), much less for lack of controls. :thumbsdown:

[Enthusiast]

59. Exactly, ShortnFiery.

Sounds like questionable science to me. SOP with regard to marijuana studies.

[Mike 03]

11. These studies are so interesting, but so confusing.

Does this mean Lance Armstrong may have smoked weed?

The cancer that my father is dying from has been linked to eating too much yogurt.


I find these studies fascinating, but terribly frustrating and contradictory.

[Pryderi]

13. Exactly how controlled was this experiment? I remember when coffee supposedly caused cancer and

they didn't exclude cigarette smokers from the study and had to retract the study.

[ShortnFiery]

14. Yes, and it was touted by the M$M until more fully explained - that us Left-Handers die younger

than our Right-handed counterparts.

If you don't control for OTHER contributing variables, the findings are BUNK. :thumbsdown:

[Pryderi]

15. I'm a lefty too. :)

[MadMaddie]

16. Drinking and Driving deaths

http://www-nrd.nhtsa.dot.gov/Pubs/811017.PDF

Table 3: Alcohol-Impaired Driving Fatalities
2006 13,491
2007 12,998


Chances to live from diagnosed testicular cancer - Good!
Chances of survival of getting hit by a drunk driver - Bad!

Lung Cancer
Pollution
Add other factors here

Just sayin...it needs to be looked at in perspective.

[TahitiNut]

17. It couldn't be that guys with testicular cancer were more willing to fess up to hitting a bong??

Naww... of course not. After all, facing one's own mortality doesn't affect how honestly one answers such questions, now, does it??

:eyes:

[havocmom]

33. shit, totally missed that one

shoulda seen it! When the going gets tough, the tough get honest on those forms in the doctor's office!

[ddeclue]

18. Oh Nuts!

:rofl:

[Cronus Protagonist]

19. Where are these some 500 people in Seattle who don't smoke pot??

I think someone may have lied a tad... :P

Besides, maybe the ones that got cancer didn't use BIC lighters... or perhaps they stood in the rain more frequently than the other group! (HINT: sarcasm - these "studies" don't control for every factor, therefore they are useless)

[ShortnFiery]

22. How about sloppy small sample and "little to no controls" for other lifestyle behaviors?

:shrug:

[Wiley50]

25. That's OK. I've got the balls to take the risk

I just wish I knew someone who would supply a Med Pot eligible patient like me

in a state like TN that has no Med Pot law

[havocmom]

34. We have one where I live, and it might help with the chronic pain

but I am so boring, I haven't a clue how to get the stuff.

[Wiley50]

41. Can I come live with you?

or at least park my sailboat in your yard

[havocmom]

61. A sailboat in my yard would be damned strange

I live in a northern desert (in 'West Dakota') where boats with engines are common for fishing, but I have yet to see a sailboat.

[hedgehog]

26. So, if the risk is say, 1 in 15,000 you'll get testicular cancer, this

raises it to say, 1 in 7000 or thereabouts?

That's based on 8,000 new cases a year.

[Zhade]

28. Such laughable bullshit. First off, correlation is not causation.

Second, researchers have found that pot SHRINKS TUMORS.

Take your propaganda elsewhere.

[book_worm]

31. everything causes cancer.

[Kellen RN]

35. Having testicles may raise the risk of testicular cancer

A study I made up in my head showed that 100% of people with testicular cancer had one or both testicles at one time.

[Ernesto]

36. SO.........

I've got enough kids (2) already!

[ferrous wheel]

42. Yes but masturbation reduces the risk, so I'm just about breaking even right now

:-)

[ddeclue]

48. But another study shows that you'll go blind from glaucoma...

if you masturbate and then you'll need more pot to stop that!

:rofl:

[ferrous wheel]

49. Gives a whole new meaning to Don't Bogart that Joint

:D :rofl:

[Stinky The Clown]

44. Man .... that's a ball buster of a report.

[Canuckistanian]

45. Sounds like someone's trying to link pot with cancer

Of course, any study of marijuana's BENEFITS dies an early death.

And a study of less than 400 men in the same geographical area proves NOTHING.

In fact, it only raises more questions - like were they all exposed to some toxic chemical in the Seattle air? Maybe they all came from the same area where a factory was spewing some carcinogen. Or there was something in the water or food supply.

Singling out ONE common factor such as marijuana and making a bold announcement to the world suggests they were LOOKING for such a link.

[Greyhound]

46. More of the same "Reefer Madness" BS to keep the money flowing.

Same old, same old.

[mitchtv]

47. thse "studies"appear like clockwork

[scarletwoman]

50. Testicular cancer? What? Were they smoking pot through their penises?

How the hell do they come up with these idiotic studies?

Questionnaire:
~~ Do you have testicular cancer? (x)yes ( )no
~~ Have you ever smoked pot? (x)yes ( )no
~~ AHAH!

:eyes:

sw

[The Straight Story]

54. I think most studies are that way...

Did your mom Die? (x) yes ( ) No
Did she Smoke (x) Yes ( )No
Did she have cancer ( )Yes (X) No

Smoking killed her, or jeebus did for the sin of smoking. Up go stats.

[Baikonour]

51. Is it the carcinogens or the THC that "causes" testicular cancer?

You know, smoking marijuana is NOT the only way to get the THC.

[Zhade]

53. You know, POT DOESN'T CAUSE CANCER.

NT!

[ddeclue]

55. Pot probably DOES cause cancer just like cigarettes

people aren't really designed to breathe smoke.

On the other hand I don't care if people smoke pot as long as they don't do it around me or while operating machinery or motor vehicles around me -more or less the same rules I have about cigarette smoke.

Doug D.

[cbc5g]

57. Probably doesn't cut it

And you don't have any evidence that marijuana causes cancer "like cigarettes". Just "maybe" and "may" or "probably". And you know why that is? Because it doesn't cause cancer like cigarettes and you're fear mongering.

[clixtox]

60. Do not leave your home...

Could it be that not smoking pot makes you paranoid?

I can guarantee that if you drive anywhere in America you are going to on the road with a lot of folks who are "toking" as they are driving.

I have been driving while toking for about 45 years, without incident.

I am not unique by any means, and while living in Northern CA I always toke the worlds best homegrown. With a doctor's recommendation, of course!

Believe it or not!

[Zhade]

65. No, it doesn't. There is ZERO EVIDENCE for your bullshit assertion.

Science -- real science, with control groups, performed in accordance with the scientific method -- has proven that pot SHRINKS TUMORS.

You are utterly, factually wrong.

[pleah]

58. How can pot help cancer patients, but then cause cancer?

This study, imo, is bullshit.

[wildbilln864]

62. Marijuana Studies....

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4oPaSnjHawo
and linky :hi:

[pipi_k]

63. Pot and testicular cancer....seriously, I want to meet the guys who can

smoke a joint through their penises.


Special props if they can blow smoke rings...

[RadiationTherapy]

64. Of all the recent lab reports about the potential harm or help of marijuana

this is what made it onto NPR.

It was a complete non-story: ONE form of testicular cancer, small sample population, a doctor stating that this is the first find of this kind and corroborrating tests would have to be run.

The only aspect of this as a "story" is that it gives the reptiles potential ammunition. They are REALLY hoping pot "causes cancer".