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== Circumcision as prevention myth== | == Circumcision as prevention myth== | ||
The myth that circumcision rendered males immune to penile cancer was invented in 1932 by a New York doctor named [[Abraham L. Wolbarst]], {{MD}}<ref name="Wolbarst 1932">{{ | The myth that circumcision rendered males immune to penile cancer was invented in 1932 by a New York doctor named [[Abraham L. Wolbarst]], {{MD}}<ref name="Wolbarst 1932">{{Wolbarst1932}}</ref> Wolbarst wrote an article that was published in ''The Lancet'' in 1932, implicating human male [[smegma]] as carcinogenic.<ref name="Wolbarst 1932"/> His hypothesis had absolutely no basis in valid scientific and epidemiological research.<ref name="FleissPM HodgesFM 1996">{{REFjournal | ||
}}</ref> Wolbarst wrote an article that was published in ''The Lancet'' in 1932, implicating human male [[smegma]] as carcinogenic.<ref name="Wolbarst 1932"/> His hypothesis had absolutely no basis in valid scientific and epidemiological research.<ref name="FleissPM HodgesFM 1996">{{REFjournal | |||
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