Consultant urologist Dr George Lee Eng Geap, or a.k.a Dr G, corrects the misconception some people may have on the consequences of undergoing the vasectomy procedure.
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00:00Hello there, welcome to the month of December. Believe it or not, we're only a few weeks away
00:05from 2025. I thought for the month of December this year, as we are ending 2024, I would like
00:14to debunk a few myths about urology. And the first myth I would like to debunk, it's about
00:22correlations between vasectomy and also prostate cancer. I recently came across a few patients who
00:35asked me, doctor I'm not really keen on vasectomy because I hear that vasectomy is associated with
00:41prostate cancer. And that prompted me to find out what is the correlations between prostate cancer
00:47and also vasectomy. In fact, it all came out from one publication. I actually look at some patients
00:55who had a vasectomy and whether there's an increased risk of getting prostate cancer. And
01:01this was a retrospective study looking at a number of patients as that was published in 2014.
01:08And it was noticed that men who had prostate cancer, about 10% of them probably underwent
01:15vasectomy and that prompted the whole worry about prostate cancer. But this study was completely
01:22unfounded. Number one, there is no specific analysis of exactly what group of patients were at risk
01:30and specific analysis of what exactly was the link between the pathogenesis of vasectomy and
01:38prostate cancer. However, I would like to bring your attention to a much bigger study.
01:44In 1998, there's already one study looking into this, analyzing a number of patients, in fact
01:52363,000 of them and looking at the number of people who had vasectomy, which is about 42,000.
02:01And out of all these people, the number of people who died of prostate cancer actually is about
02:077,400 and there is no correlation between people who had the vasectomy and people who did not have
02:13vasectomy. So on that basis, you can be rest assured that there is no link between vasectomy
02:20and subsequent risk of prostate cancer. In fact, prostate cancer is probably linked to lifestyle,
02:26such as high meat intake lifestyle, high animal fat intake and also sedentary lifestyle. And all
02:33these men are more at risk of prostate cancer, especially you have got genetic basis of risks
02:40such as BRCA genes and also breast cancer and prostate cancer in the family.
02:45The second week, we're going to talk about correlation between frequency of sex and also
02:51prostate cancer. Is there a link of a reduction of the risk of prostate cancer or increased risk
02:57of prostate cancer? If you are interested, stay tuned for next week's Putting Dr. G on the Spot.
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