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From: 7visions <7visions_at_prodigy.net_at_hypermail.org>
Date: Wed, 23 Jul 2003 22:57:07 -0700

> LONDON (Reuters) - Frequent masturbation, particularly in the 20s, helps
prevent prostate cancer later in life, according to new research. Australian
scientists have shown that the more men masturbate between the ages of 20
and 50, the less likely they are to develop the disease that kills more than
half a million men each year. They suspect that frequent ejaculation has a
protective effect against the cancer because it prevents dangerous
carcinogens from building up in the gland. "The more you flush the ducts
out, the less there is to hang around and damage the cells that line them,"
Graham Giles, of the Cancer Council Victoria in Melbourne, told New
Scientist magazine on Wednesday. In a survey of 1,079 prostate cancer
patients and 1,259 healthy men, Giles and his team discovered that men who
ejaculated more than five times a week in their 20s were a third less likely
to develop an aggressive form of the disease. The findings contradict
previous studies which suggested that having a variety of partners or
frequent sexual activity could increase the risk of prostate cancer by 40
percent. But Giles said the earlier research concentrated on intercourse,
whereas his study focused on masturbation. Infections caused by sexual
activity could account for the different findings. "Men have many ways of
using their prostate which don't involve women or other men," he added.
Received on 2003-07-23 22:58:32