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Timely Diagnosis of Testicular Cancer

Urologic Clinics of North America, ISSN: 0094-0143, Vol: 34, Issue: 2, Page: 109-117
2007
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Monday’s medical myth: testicular self-examination is a waste of time

Testicular self-examination is turning men into “ball-watching neurotics” – that’s the view of Keith Hopcroft, a GP from Essex in the United Kingdom. It’s unnecessary, he explained recently in the British Medical Journal, because it won’t necessarily detect cancer and it needlessly induces anxiety. So, is it time to stop groping your gonads – or to start? Testicular cancer might be a rare disease,

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Early detection of testicular tumors has been touted as beneficial for more than 100 years. In earlier eras, early detection was virtually the only way to improve outcomes. According to statistics that have been tracked in the literature, however, the delay from initial symptoms to definitive diagnosis by radical orchiectomy has averaged 4 to 5 months. In the modern era of effective chemotherapy, the effects of a delayed diagnosis on survival can be overcome but at the cost of a more morbid treatment regimen. Although screening on a population basis is not currently recommended by the National Cancer Institute, teaching testicular self examination to young men, particularly those who have risk factors, is reasonable.

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