Assertion: circumcision | /r/CapableOf | offer protection
Facets:
value: from penile cancer
type: OTHER
value: against rare penile cancer
type: TRANSITIVE-OBJECT
value: against hiv
type: TRANSITIVE-OBJECT
value: against hiv infection
type: TRANSITIVE-OBJECT
Source sentences:
text: The Orange Farm trial report concluded that circumcision offered protection against HIV infection "equivalent to what a vaccine of high efficacy would have achieved".
text: Circumcision appears to offer some protection against rare penile cancer, but the GRADE of the evidence is low quality and the strength of the recommendation for practice is weak (Dave et al.
text: However, when the meta-analysis looked only at the observational studies conducted in the U.S., there was no evidence that circumcision offered protection against HIV, suggesting that there might be differences in the effectiveness of circumcision against HIV in different regions.
text: However, there is some evidence that circumcision may only offer protection from penile cancer if done in childhood, and adult surgery may not offer any protection.
text: - Medical research shows that circumcision offers some protection from certain types of cancer.