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without first speaking with your doctor. Now, let's head to the show. Hey, everyone, welcome back to

another episode of Dr. Rucho. This is Dr. Rishou, actually coming to you on a Saturday, which I rarely

actually podcast on Saturdays. However, I was just going through some

information on cannabis and cancer. And it is such a choice example of how we have to not only

describe to people risks associated with certain behaviors, but we have to quantify the level of risk

because when you tell someone behavior acts, in this case cannabis, may increase male risk

of testicular cancer, but you don't quantify the magnitude of that risk. You can lead people into an unnecessarily

concerned position and rightfully so. This is why it's so crucial. Anytime we're discussing

risk, we as best were able to quantify the degree of risk. So in this case,

I was having a conversation with a colleague of mine in urology and the topic of cannabis

use came up. And he remarked that there have been meta-analyses

finding a association between cannabis use and increased risk of testicular cancer.

Now, my follow-up was knowing that there's often this unhealthy user effect was, have the

confounding variables been controlled for? Now, he didn't believe so. So I decided to look into this

a little more closely because if there is something there,

this is something I would want to know about, obviously, and I'd want to share with our audience

because we have showcased the benefits of cannabis use, but I'm always trying to be as

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