From Wiki:
Penile cancer is a rare cancer in developed nations with annual incidence varying from 0.3 to 1 per 100,000 per year.
The lifetime risk has been estimated as 1 in 1,437 in the United States and 1 in 1,694 in Denmark.
This year, an estimated 1,570 men in the United States will be diagnosed with penile cancer. An estimated 310 deaths from the disease will occur this year.
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About 1 in 8 (12%) women in the US will develop invasive breast cancer during their lifetime.
The chance that breast cancer will be responsible for a woman's death is about 1 in 36.
The American Cancer Society's estimates for breast cancer in the United States for 2014 are:
--About 232,670 new cases of invasive breast cancer will be diagnosed in women.
--About 62,570 new cases of carcinoma in situ (CIS) will be diagnosed (CIS is non-invasive and is the earliest form of breast cancer).
--About 40,000 women will die from breast cancer.
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232,670 cases and 40,000 deaths! We have to do something!
Off with all breasts! We can't take any chances!
To be serious: if these statistics are correct, it shows that the hysteria over penile cancer is just an effort to promote a religious belief in ritual genital mutilation on anyone and everyone. The death rate from penile cancer seems to be far below that of pedestrians (4,280) and half that of bicyclists (618). And the death rate from breast cancer is far higher--about 125 times higher--but we don't have the same call for removing breasts as we do for removing foreskins.
Maybe some folks should just practice their religions in private and leave the rest of us alone.
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Belief gets in the way of learning--Robert A. Heinlein
How can I possibly put a new idea into your heads, if I do not first remove your delusions?--Robert A. Heinlein
It's not what we don't know that hurts, it's what we know that ain't so--Will Rogers
If I am entitled to something, someone else is obliged to pay--Jerry Pournelle
If a religion's teachings are true, then it should have nothing to fear from science...--dwise1