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== Estimations of death due to male infant circumcision ==
Gellis (1978) estimated that there are more deaths each year from non-therapeutic circumcision of children than from cancer of the penis.{{REFjournal
|last=Cellis
|first=Sidney S.
|author-link=
|etal=so
|title=Circumcision
|trans-title=
|language=
|journal=Am J Dis Child
|location=
|date=1978-12
|volume=132
|issue=
|pages=1168
|url=http://www.cirp.org/library/general/gellis1/
|quote=
|pubmedID=717329
|pubmedCID=
|DOI=10.1001/archpedi.1978.02120370016003
|accessdate=2020-02-02
}}
A study in 2010 estimated approximately 117 neonatal circumcision-related deaths occur annually in the United States, about one out of every 77 male neonatal deaths, more than suffocation, auto accidents, or even SIDS.<ref name="bollinger2010">{{REFjournal
|DOI=10.3149/thy.0401.78
|date=2010-04-26
|accessdate=2020-02-02
}}</ref><ref>{{REFweb
| quote=
| website=International Coalition for Genital Integrity
| date=2010-04-26
| accessdate=2020-02-02
}}</ref>