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Excessive masturbation caused tissue damage to penis - could I get penis cancer?

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I masturbated with too heavy hand and over clothes (as I discovered it as a 12 year old my accident). As teenager noticed my penis was bit pent and then found it had these kinda hard partial rings under skin, around the area that was bending. And like... not hole, but bit of a valley or empty under skin as if I bend it too hard to one side so flesh had to move away. Now my penis is curved downwards, penis head looks thicker and my dick (when limp) feels kinda heavy at the tip when I bend over naked (when doing bed because it's too hot here to wear clothes).

I guess that's Peyronie's disease?

I visited doc in my late 20s, he just said the hard part is just my penis head, but he didn't really make me get hard there and I'm very much a grower, not a shower so not sure if he maybe didn't get what I meant.

Then few years later had very stressful situation during lockdown where I masturbated, then did it again and again, but I was soft, I put too much pressure, my penis took damage, got smaller, misshaped, was swollen and one side thicker, but that pulled back. But it's still smaller now and foreskin is lot wider around it.

I'll note I also have phimosis.

My questions:

Can damage to penis tissue from such fapping cause cancer?

How likely is to get penis cancer from phimosis causing infection? (I'm starting foreskin stretching again)

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Arclight1979

Heya - I would strongly urge you to consult with a medical professional. On this forum we only can really share our own experiences with conditions and operations, rather than medical advice. There may be some members who have experiences they can share, but a medical professional should be your first port of call. :)

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Omniscient1 in reply to Arclight1979

.... And the medic will spot it straight away.

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ml66uk

What you describe sounds complicated, so you'd need advice from a urologist.

I've never heard of masturbation causing cancer though, and there is some evidence that regular ejaculation is linked with lower rates of prostate cancer.

There does seem to be a link between phimosis and penile cancer, but that seems to be mostly in cases of very poor hygiene. If you can't retract your foreskin at all, then foreskin stretching sounds like a good idea, or you could also consider circumcision (though for me, that would be a last resort).

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