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|publisher=US Dept of Health, Education, and Welfare, Public Health Service
|date=1975
}}</ref>. Maden et al. (1993) reported penile cancer among a fifth of elderly patients from rural areas who had been [[circumcised ]] neonatally and had been born at a time when the rate of neonatal [[circumcision ]] was about 20% in rural populations.<ref>{{REFjournal
|last=Maden
|init=C
|volume=85
|pages=19-24
}}</ref> Their study also shows that the rate of penile cancer among men [[circumcised ]] neonatally has risen in the United States relative to the rise in the rate of neonatal circumcision.
Penile cancer is very rare in Europe and North America, occurring in about one in 100,000 men in the latter. It accounts for 0.2% of cancers and 0.1% of deaths from cancer amongst males in the United States. However, in some parts of Africa and South America it accounts for up to 10% of cancers in men.<ref name="What Are the Key Statistics About Penile Cancer?">{{REFweb