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Alex Wodak's interests include circumcision,<ref>{{REFjournal
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== Interests ==
|last=Cooper
|first=David A.
|first2=Alex D.
|last2=Wodak
|author2-link=Alex D. Wodak
|first3=Brian J.
|last3=Morris
|pages=318-319
|url=http://www.mja.com.au/public/issues/193_06_200910/coo10571_fm.html
}}</ref> prevention of HIV among injecting drug users, brief interventions for problem drinkers, prevention of alcohol problems, treatment of drug users, drug policy reform.
|Text=Think of real harms to the uncircumcised boy and later man of something like a 1 in 10 risk of urinary tract infection in the uncircumcised, whereas the risk of urinary tract infection in the circumcised is very much lower. Cancer of the penis for example occurs in 1 in 600 uncircumcised men is virtually unheard of in circumcised penis.
|Author=Alex Wodak
|Source=Channel 10
|ref=<ref name="Channel10">[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rs9d5IGLLLU ''Channel 10, 9am with Dave & Kim '']</ref>
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|Text=It's to do with the anatomy of the foreskin which traps material underneath it including presumably cancer causing excretions from the skin.
|Author=Alex Wodak
|Source=Channel 10
|ref=<ref name="Channel10"/>
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* [[Penile cancer]]
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