Are there any long-term health risks of vasectomy?
Men having a vasectomy are no more likely to develop cancer, heart disease or other health problems. The National Institutes of Health, the Association for Voluntary Surgical Contraception (AVSC International), and the National Cancer Institute reaffirmed the conclusion of most medical experts that vasectomy is safe and effective. In 1993 there were two articles in the Journal Of The American Medical Association that suggested that vasectomy was associated with a small increased risk of prostate cancer. JAMA 1993 Feb 17; 269:878-882, JAMA 1993 Feb 17; 269:873-877. However, since then there have been numerous studies to show that there is no cause and effect relationship between vasectomy and prostate cancer. http://www.cancer.gov/cancertopics/factsheet/Risk/vasectomy, http://www.nih.gov/news/pr/jun2002/nichd-18.htm (Journal of Urology 1999,161: 1848-1853, Journal of the American Medical Association 2002, 287:3110-3115, Journal of Urology 2002,168: 1408-1411). Epidemiologists, scientist
