• Joeffect@lemmy.world
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    20 hours 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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      18 hours 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.

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        17 hours ago

        But… it has no place to go… so the fluid that is made in the prostate doesn’t go anywhere… I could be wrong and my info is probably outdated by years… but that was my understanding…