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- amputee@lemmy.sdf.org
- worldnewsnonus
- globalnews@lemmy.zip
- cross-posted to:
- amputee@lemmy.sdf.org
- worldnewsnonus
- globalnews@lemmy.zip
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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.
I am curious what a “partial penis amputation” involves.
Just the tip.
Somehow that sounds worse than taking the whole thing
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.
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
Smoke more weed and your dreams will stop. Doctors hate this one trick.
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
Weed does not make my dreams go away.
Welp, I’m going to bed now. Would be interesting to have an amputation in a dream. Let’s see
Does foreskin count?
But only for a minute.
Cancer Grows at the tip they snip a bit. Grows at the base they take the most of it.
Just a little off the top
We call that “The Bobbit”
A reference that no one under 40 will get.
As a 32YO, I get that reference! I think Lorena Bobbit is still pretty well known.
John Bobbitt somehow turned that into a low-quality porn career.
I guess talk show hosts did get about a decade out of that dick joke.
Could also be the bobbit worm?
Slightly under forty, definitely get it.
for funsies, look up the “bobbit worm”. It’s a marine worm that hunts fish.
then, check out its scientific name. It’s a worthy surprise.
They take the bottom half.