“…A report in the Bulletin of the World Health Organization (Farley et al, 1993) acquitted vasectomy of causing cardiovdscular disease and testicular cancer but returned a verdict of "not proven" for prostate cancer. Most reviews on vasectomy and health, including the most recent by Linnet (1993), Hendry (1994), and a large survey by Coulson et al (1993), mention that a number of men suffer chronic local pain or discomfort, attributed to epididymal distension and sperm granuloma formation. Vasectomy is used as a means of avoiding pregnancy by -50 million couples worldwide (WHO, 1991), and there is a growing body of reports of local morbidity following the procedure.…”