• Joeffect@lemmy.world
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    4 days ago

    The reason why people get cancer 15 years or so after a vasectomy is because there is no place for anything to go and it gets absorbed back into your body… and the chance of having cancer cells absorbed increases… or something

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      4 days ago

      Looks like studies are inconclusive on that and even when they show an effect it is a small increase of a low base rate. Also your proposed mechanism doesn’t make sense because the increase if it exists is for prostate cancer, not testicular.