Diagnosis and treatment of testicular cancer.(Disease/Disorder overview)
Testicular cancer is the most common malignancy in men 20 to 35 years of age and has an annual incidence of four per 100,000. If diagnosed early, the cure rate is nearly 99 percent. Risk factors for testicular cancer include cryptorchidism (i.e., undescended testicles), family history, infertility,
Testicular cancer: an overview.
Testicular cancer (TC) strikes men between the ages of 15 and 35. If detected early, this disease can be irradicated in virtually every patient. Unfortunately, several hundred men will die from this disease each year. Research has shown that men do not know the importance of testicular
Testicular cancer screening in a primary care setting.
Testicular cancer most commonly affects younger males, and its incidence has increased in recent years. There is, however, a lack of data documenting the level of testicular cancer screening by physicians in primary-care settings in the U.S. In this retrospective study over a one-year period, we
Testicular Cancer
Testicular cancer Definition Testicular cancer is a disease in which cancer cells are discovered in one or both testicles. The testicles, also known as testes or gonads, are located in a pouch beneath the penis called the scrotum. Description The testicles make up one portion of the male
Testicular Cancer.
Although testicular cancer accounts for only 1 percent of all tumors in males, it is the most common malignancy in males between 15 and 34 years of age. Cryptorchidism is the most significant risk factor for testicular cancer, increasing the risk up to 11-fold. A painless testicular mass is the
Manhood's cancer.
Testicular cancer tends to be a young man's disease. In 1993, U.S. physicians diagnosed some 6,600 cases, accounting for about 1 out of every 91 new malignancies in men. Though relatively rare, it nevertheless is the most common cancer in American males age 15 to 35. Over the past several decades,
Birth cohort effects underlying the increasing testicular cancer incidence in Canada
ABSTRACT Purpose: To examine the pattern of testicular cancer incidence by age, time period and birth cohort since 1969 in Canada. Method. In addition to analyses of the secular trends by age group and birth cohort separately, an ageperiod-cohort model and the submodels with standard Poisson
Testicular and breast self-examination knowledge and practices of certified athletic trainers and the secondary prevention of such cancers in intercollegiate student-athletes.
Abstract: Certified athletic trainers have an opportunity to educate male and female athletes about testicular and breast cancer and the self-examination techniques that can help detect cancer in its earliest stages, while providing today's student-athletes with the lifetime health care prevention
"It's because of the invincibility thing": young men, masculinity, and testicular cancer.
Previous research on testicular cancer and testicular self-examination has not specifically examined how masculinity informs the ways in which young men think about the disease and their self-screening practices. This paper reports on the findings from two focus groups conducted with healthy
Family history as a risk factor for testicular cancer.
Testicular cancer has a few well-established risk factors, including undescended testes and a history of contralateral germ cell tumor. Family history has also been suggested as a possible risk factor, even though no convincing data clearly identify a prevalence of familial testicular cancer in
