A new study suggests that men who smoke marijuana are at an increased
risk of testicular cancer, however, men who use cocaine may be at a
lower risk for the disease.
Testicular cancer is the most common cancer to be diagnosed in young men between the ages of 15 to 45.
Researchers found that men with a history of marijuana use were twice
as likely to have substypes of testicular cancer called non-seminoma
and mixed germ cell tumors. These tumors usually occur in younger men,
and carry a slightly worse prognosis than the seminoma subtype.
Dr. Victoria Cortessis and researchers at the Keck School of Medicine
at the University of Southern California looked at the history of
recreational drug use in 163 young men diagnosed with testicular cancer
and compared it to that of 292 healthy men of the same age and ethnicity
to see if drug use might play a role.
Dr. Cortessis said:
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