The article said that only uncircumcised men get cancer of the penis. The fact was presented as uncontroversial.

This worried me two ways.

1. Perhaps I would get this uniquely emasculating cancer.
2. How little science knows

The second concern requires a little amplification. It is strikingly implausible that the foreskin causes cancer. It is just a flap of skin. So there must be a causal chain and other links that could be broken and which would also eliminate penile cancer. Indeed one usually thinks as cancer originating inside a cell at the level of molecular biology. It is very hard to imagine a mechanism for which a foreskin is necessary. This limiting of possibilities surely makes the causal chain a promising target for research, and yet the article gave no indication of alternative prophylaxis's based on such research.

I Googled and found pages denying the link that I had found so worryingly implausible.

I don't really know what to make of this. Well actually I think that I do. Apparently penis cancer is rarer than breast cancer which itself is too rare to worry about (I'm a man!) So I'll just forget all about it. (Except that it strikes me as another case of using a rare illness to scare people - since it is rare there will be a lack of solid information)