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To: longnshort who wrote (25389)	2/24/2009 3:37:40 PM
From: DuckTapeSunroof	Read Replies (1) of 25737

Thanks. It well may be an outlier, since "A spokesman for Cancer Research UK said that no previous studies had found a link between marijuana and the disease". Very small study. No doubt it will be peer reviewed now and then followed up by bigger studies which will attempt to duplicate the results. Until then, it is just one odd result, sticking out of a much larger pile. Will need to be confirmed first before any public policy implications need to even be considered. However, it well may be that there is some sort of hormonal connection with puberty.... The next step, he said, would be to look more closely at cells in the testicles to see if any of them had receptors set up to respond to cannabis chemicals. Henry Scowcroft, from Cancer Research UK, said: "As the researchers themselves point out, this is the first inkling that there is any association between chronic marijuana use and testicular cancer. "But the researchers only interviewed a relatively small number of men. "So before we can reach any firm conclusions about whether this is a cause-and-effect relationship, rather than a statistical blip, the result needs to be replicated in a much larger study."

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