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Marijuana Use Linked to Testicular Cancer

In a population-based case-control study, men diagnosed with testicular cancer were 70% more likely to be current marijuana users than were healthy controls, according to Stephen Schwartz, Ph.D., of the Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center, and colleagues.

How horrible! A link between marijuana use and cancer in a man's genital region would surely cause people to rethink their habits.

They enrolled men ages 18 to 44 who lived in three counties in the Seattle area and were diagnosed with an invasive testicular germ cell tumor between Jan. 1, 1999 and Jan. 31, 2006.

They did the study in Seattle? That hardly seems fair. I know one guy in all of Seattle that doesn't use marijuana.

The incidence of testicular cancer has increased since the 1950s by between 3% and 6% a year in the U.S., Canada, Europe, Australia and New Zealand. At the same time, marijuana use in those regions has also risen, the researchers said.

So if you are from a predominantly Caucasian part of the world that has undergone heavy technological industrilization in the past fifty years, intense urbanization, a dramatic increase in the use of synthetic fibers in clothing (including underwear), and the use of artificial hormones in your mass produced food products, pot smoking may be what caused you to get testicular cancer.