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Testicular cancer

Carcinoma testis · Rakovina varlete

male only

What it is

The commonest cancer in young men — and one of the most curable.

Symptoms & signs

  • Painless firm testicular lump
  • heaviness
  • dull ache
  • rarely breast tenderness

🚩 Get help if…

  • call 112 / 911 now Sudden severe pain and swelling of a testicle
  • see a doctor soon A painless lump or hardening in a testicle
  • see a doctor soon Heavy feeling in the scrotum or a testicle changing size
  • see a doctor soon Breast swelling, back pain or cough with a testicle change

Where it strikes

Medical treatment

  • Orchidectomy
  • surveillance
  • BEP chemotherapy
  • retroperitoneal node dissection
  • sperm banking first

Natural & lifestyle

  • Know what is normal for you — no trial shows routine self-examination saves lives
  • prompt review of any lump

Emerging & experimental

  • Reduced-intensity chemotherapy protocols
  • miR-371 tumour marker

Alternative, off-label & anecdotal

Approaches used outside the guidelines, with what their supporters report and what testing has found so far.

  • Exercise during chemotherapy — small trials reduce fatigue early / small studies
  • Herbal cancer cures — none; delay can cost a cure that treatment achieves in about 95% anecdotal / traditional

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