Penile Cancer and Circumcision

Cancer of the penis is very rare, with a lifetime risk of between 1/600 and 1/1300. It strikes mostly older men. Even if circumcision could prevent it completely (which it does not), about a thousand foreskin amputations would be necessary to prevent one cancer of the penis. A thousand infants would be mutilated, and several would die to prevent that one case of cancer. Who could scientifically advocate foreskin amputation for this reason? – Dr. George Denniston

http://www.cirp.org/library/disease/cancer/

http://www.cirp.org/library/statements/letters/1996-02_ACS/