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 , im 15 years old and im really scared i might have testcular cancer...the colour of my penis has got darker than the rest of my body and i have a few pea size lumps around my penis and i was just hoping someone could comment please.
Hi I'm 24 year old guy and I have noticed a fairly large lump on my left testicle, I'm sure its nothing to worry about and I want to get it. Becker out but I don't like my gp, I don't believe she is very thorough and in the past has been quick to reffer me on with really looking at what ever my/ family members issue has been. Where else can I go to get checked out? Also during the whole checking yourself over I have found it difficult to examine my self as my testes keep rolling around, I know the tubes will be at one end of the teste but both seem to roll around very easily making it difficult to properly feel. Is this normal?
yeah I'm 15 and my left testicle has what seems to be a lot of tubes or pipes coilled up into a ball, is that normal or should i get it checked out?
sometime my left testicle would swell up but when i squice it it gose away ...what do i do ? !
I have a really small lump pea sized on my balls help me out please, I'm 14 started some stages of puberty
hi, im 18 and iv had a lump at the bottom of my "ball sack" so not acctually on a testicle. iv been to my GP and he said he couldnt feel anything and there is nothing to worry about. but now the developement of a second pea sized, painless lump has appeared in the same area and i wont to know what to do next, how do i go bout getting a scan???
im 14 and have a small pea sized lumb on either side of my balls what should i do
hello i am 15 i can feel a small lump its sort of on top of the testical and im realy starting to worry please help i dont know what to do im realy embarrased about telling my pearents please help
same here but got two soft lumps on my left one , im going to pluck up the courge and tell my mum
Everyone coming on to this site asking about a small lump on your testicle/testicles, read this! I had two lumps on my testicles, one on the left, one on the right, near the top. I came onto this site and decided I would have to go to the doctors. I was embarassed to tell my paretns but when I did, I asked my dad first as he would understand. We went to my GP and I told them about how I knew it was not the epididymus. The doctor checked me over and decide I was fine and there was nothing to worry about. I was still worried so I asked if I could have a scan done, one week later, I had a scan and on one testicle, the small lump was just some veins protruding out of the epididymus whereas on the other side, I had a small cyst no more than a few milimetres. I was told not to worry and to concentrate on my GCSEs. I still have the lumps but atleast now I don't have to live everyday thinking about how I might die in a few months. PLEASE GO TO YOUR GP TO GET IT OVER AND DONE WITH! THE EARLIER THE BETTER! Good luck :)
Thank you so much for posting that comment I'm going to do the same thing
Hello i'm 15 and i have noticed that there is a small lump near the top of my left testicle. i havent went to the GP yet as i dont know what to do. Can you help me?
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