I read that men who develop more aggressive forms of prostate cancer underwent vasectomies years ago. Is this true?

The history of disease processes following a vasectomy is one of the most studied in all of medicine. There has never been any disease that has actually been shown to be increased by having a vasectomy. This is a very interesting subject and in particular prostate cancer has been looked at extensively over the last 50 years all studies were negative until around 1992. At that time 2 studies suggested a slight increase in the incidence of prostate cancer after men have had a vasectomy. It made the 6:00 evening news that night. 1 week later the American urologic Association put out a position statement saying that they have read those 2 articles and as a result will do further studies but still believed that vasectomy was safe. At least 4 studies have been done since then involving thousands of men and all of those studies are negative. It is now a generally excepted statement that a vasectomy does not cause any deleterious effect. There is a lot more to say about the subject but I am out of room

Published on Jul 11, 2012

It has never been proven that men who have a vasectomy will get prostate cancer or that if they get this type of cancer, it will be more aggressive.

Published on Jul 11, 2012