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}}</ref> Schoen had a humorous poem about circumcision published in 1986.<refname="schoen1986">{{REFjournal

}}</ref> This was despite their own admission that evidence linking circumcision to prevention of any diseases was inconclusive, with the sole exception of penile cancer (which they noted was mainly caused by unhealthy lifestyles). Given Schoen's history of circumcision advocacy and his position as taskforce chair, he may have influenced the committee significantly.  The 1989 AAP circumcision statement was not well received. Professor Ronald Poland, M. D., another member of the AAP task force rejected Schoen's advocacy of non-therapeutic circumcision and published his own paper in which he argued against circumcision.<ref>{{REFjournal |last=Poland |first=Ronald L |author-link= |coauthors= |title=The question of routine neonatal circumcision |trans-title= |language= |journal=N Engl J Med |date=1990 |volume=322 |issue= |pages=1312-5 |url=http://www.cirp.org/library/general/poland/ |quote= |pubmedID=2183058 |pubmedCID= |DOI=10.1056/NEJM199005033221811 |accessdate=2019-10-11}}</ref> In 1999, the AAP revised their circumcision policy statement. Their newer statement was more conservative about circumcision's potential benefits, saying that they did not outweigh the procedure's own risks, and recommended leaving the decision to parents based on their cultural traditions, in addition to the medical factors.<ref>{{REFweb