Testicular cancer occurs when cancer cells develop in one, or sometimes both, of the testicles. The testicles are a gland that produces sperm and testosterone. Performing regular testicular self-exams ...

Dr. Sarah Thompson, chief urologist at Metropolitan Cancer Center, explains that family history plays a crucial role in testicular cancer risk. Men with close relatives who experienced testicular ...

A self-exam for testicular cancer takes maybe a minute to do and about that much time to teach but most often, neither happens, according to a study published in the March issue of Pediatrics. An ...

Testicular cancer is not very common, but it deserves careful consideration because it can act rapidly in nonseminomatous germ cell tumours, which are more virulent than seminomas. Testicular cancer ...

According to the American Cancer Society, about one in 250 men will develop testicular cancer in their life and the chance of dying of the disease is 1 in 5,000. Johns Hopkins Medicine says that there ...

Healthcare professionals do not know whether testicular cancer screening is particularly useful. For this reason, there are no screening guidelines for this condition. The same is true of testicular ...

Younger people often assume they have no real risk of cancer until they reach retirement age, but this certainly isn’t the case when it comes to testicular cancer, which primarily affects men between ...

Testicular pain is pain you feel in one or both of your testicles. Your testicles are the two soft, round structures inside your scrotum, the sac of skin underneath your penis. Testicles make sperm ...

The association of testicular microlithiasis with testicular tumor and the management of incidentally detected testicular microlithiasis have generated a great deal of interest. We review the current ...