Conditions
Testicular Cancer
If you regularly find yourself fondling your balls in the shower, then you should transform your comforting cupping into a regular and reassuring self-examination for testicular cancer. If you get used to the size and shape of your balls, then any change or anomaly you notice should be taken seriously. However, a swelling or painless, pea-sized lump in one of the testes (balls) is most common. Early diagnosis of testicular cancer means that recovery is high and the current survival rate is an impressive 95%. It is considered a young man’s cancer and is the biggest cause of cancer-related death in 15 to 35 year-old males, but it is still quite rare and accounts for about 1-2% of all cancers in men, with approximately 2000 new cases per year in the UK. Treatment for testicular cancer will reduce you to ‘meat and just one veg’, but the alternative if the cancer spreads is a lot worse.
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Hi I'm fourteen , I've had a small soft lump on my right testicle for about two years now.Urinating,ejaculation and everything seems normal.No aches or pains or anything like that, although when I was four I had a small cyst removed. My face is quite spotty so I wondered if it was just acne- if you can even get it down their!!!!
Hi there, i have just turned 20 and i have a hard pea sized lump on the top of my right testicle which is completly painless. it appeared over a few weeks and i thought it was just a cyst. However i have just noticed a second lump a couple of mm to the right of the first which is a different size and shape to the first and it feels like a grain of rice, with a small nodule attached to the end. I have also recently developed pain in my back, it feels like the kidney area. any advice?
i found a pea sized lump on my left ball and dont no what to do and amy very imbaressed, scared and dont no what t do its been there for over a year i am only 14 can someone please help me out
Can you tell me what the milky white stuff the my partner is passing through his penis. It only lasts for a few seconds then goes back to a normal urine colour.
i have noticed small lumps around my left testicle and the testicle is purple nd senstive but i am only 13 years old what should i do ?
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hi im 14 and i have a small lump on my left testical and after looking up things that people have said on the site im worried that it might be and im to scared to say anything to my familyu or freinds what should i do ??:(
dont be scared - everyone has exactly the same worries and your doctor has seen it a thousand times before - go get it checked out - you'll be able to stop worrying and if it is anything serious they'll be able to sort it quickly
Read the NHS Choices info further up this page on the right hand side - it expalains what you can do
I'm 14 and i have found a small ball in my scrotum, when i was younger the doctor said i had an abscess. Just wondered if this is cancerous. It is not attatched to the testicle. There are ring things near it as well.
hi im 15 and i have a small ridge like lump on my testical can i go to my gp on my own ?
I'm 16 and have recently been diagnosed with a cyst on by right sperm tube but recently I have noticed that I have got a collection of smaller lumps on the right side of my scrotum right at the bottom of the sperm tube where it meets the testicle and I am not sure what itbis as it is a differnt shape and size to the cyst... What should I do?
i am 15 and over night a red bump apeared on my penis. I consider myself to have small testicles(the size of a ping pong ball, one smaller than the other) and a small penis(3" flacid, 5.9" erect). The bump is on the upside of my penis about an inch from my pubic hair area and it is about the size of a pellet and it is hard too. i have had no sexual activity apart from masturbating which i do normally twice or 3 times a day. can somebody please help me??
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