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Between 2012 and 2022, there were 21,000 reported cases, according to Brazil's Ministry of Health. This resulted in more than 4,000 deaths and, over the past decade, there have been more than 6,500 amputations - averaging two each day.

Maranhão, the poorest state in Brazil, was found to have the highest incidence rate globally at 6.1 per 100,000 men.

Symptoms of penile cancer often start with a sore on the penis that does not heal and a strong-smelling discharge. Some people get bleeding and colour changes of the penis, too.

When detected early, there is a high chance of recovery through treatments such as the surgical removal of the lesion, radiotherapy and chemotherapy.

But if left untreated, partial or total amputation of the penis, and possibly other nearby genital organs such as the testicles, may become necessary.

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[-] ArmoredThirteen@lemmy.ml 10 points 1 week ago

Somehow that sounds worse than taking the whole thing

[-] FlyingSquid@lemmy.world 6 points 1 week ago

I've had multiple nightmares where it just comes off in my hand. Not the whole thing, "just the tip."

I don't think it's a 'loss of masculinity' thing, it's more about something dreadful very suddenly happening to my body that I can't undo.

[-] ArmoredThirteen@lemmy.ml 7 points 1 week ago

So I'm trans and find this pretty interesting. I used to have euphoria dreams where it would come off entirely. Now I'm newly post op and I'm having the occasional nightmares where it's come back or worse, I start like disentigrating from inside and things fall out of me. Body horror dreams are wild

[-] Socsa@sh.itjust.works 2 points 1 week ago

Smoke more weed and your dreams will stop. Doctors hate this one trick.

[-] ArmoredThirteen@lemmy.ml 5 points 1 week ago

That's actually one of the reasons I stopped smoking. I normally lucid dream almost every night and wanted that back so I mostly quit weed

[-] FlyingSquid@lemmy.world 3 points 1 week ago

Weed does not make my dreams go away.

[-] fossphi@lemm.ee 3 points 1 week ago

Welp, I'm going to bed now. Would be interesting to have an amputation in a dream. Let's see

[-] Frog@lemmy.ca 2 points 1 week ago

Does foreskin count?

this post was submitted on 22 Jun 2024
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