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October 1979, Vol 133, No. 10 >
Article | October 1979

Circumcision-Reply FREE

SYDNEY S. GELLIS, MD
Am J Dis Child. 1979;133(10):1079-1080. doi:10.1001/archpedi.1979.02130100103024.
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In Reply.—I cannot fault the figures offered by Dr Kochen and Mr McCurdy. From data supplied by physicians' reports, there are many more deaths from cancer of the penis than from circumcision. However, they fail to recognize the weaknesses of physician reporting. A number of deaths from circumcision are signed out as deaths due to sepsis. The writers should have stopped at this point and would have been well ahead. Instead, they fell into the trap of discussing other complications of routine circumcision, together with the claim that routine circumcisions are warranted because they will prevent carcinoma of the penis. My reply to these two points is as follows:

(1) The writers admit that "several smaller studies of circumcisions do report higher nonfatal complication rates, up to 68%. However, it has been pointed out that complications in almost every case have been due to poor technique or to circumcisions

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Gee WF, Ansell JS:  Neonatal circumcision: A ten-year overview . Pediatrics 58:824-827, 1976;.
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Preston EN:  Whither the foreskin? JAMA 213:1853-1858, 1970;.
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Cooke PJ, Burkitt DP:  Cancer in Africa . Br Med Bull 27:14-20, 1971;.
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Grimes DA:  Routine circumcision of the newborn: A reappraisal . Am J Obstet Gynecol 130:125-129, 1978;.
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Demetrakopoulos GE:  A different view of the facts . Pediatrics 56:339-340, 1975;.

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Gee WF, Ansell JS:  Neonatal circumcision: A ten-year overview . Pediatrics 58:824-827, 1976;.
2 +
Preston EN:  Whither the foreskin? JAMA 213:1853-1858, 1970;.
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Cooke PJ, Burkitt DP:  Cancer in Africa . Br Med Bull 27:14-20, 1971;.
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Grimes DA:  Routine circumcision of the newborn: A reappraisal . Am J Obstet Gynecol 130:125-129, 1978;.
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Demetrakopoulos GE:  A different view of the facts . Pediatrics 56:339-340, 1975;.

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