Testicular cancer is the most common cancer in young men (ages 15-45). In the testes, cancer of the germ cells (immature sperm) is by far the most frequent, though cancer of the testosteroneproducing Leydig cells can also occur. Fortunately, treatment for testicular cancer has markedly improved over the past several decades, and the disease is frequently curable with combinations of surgery, ch...

To assess the association between adult body size and germ-cell testicular cancer risk and to understand whether this association is independent from perinatal characteristics, a nested case-control study was conducted. Three hundred and seventy-one patients with testicular cancer, registered in the Swedish Cancer Registry between 1958 and 1996 and aged 20-54 years at diagnosis, and 1238 indivi...

BACKGROUND In the past 20 years, the incidence of prostate cancer has risen rapidly. It has been ranked as the third most common malignant tumor of the male genitourinary system. Testicular metastasis is uncommon in prostate cancer. Most cases are incidentally found in the treatment of prostate cancer with orchiectomy. Therefore, we believed it was necessary to report the case of our patient wi...

To assess the association between adult body size and germ-cell testicular cancer risk and to understand whether this association is independent from perinatal characteristics, a nested case-control study was conducted. Three hundred and seventy-one patients with testicular cancer, registered in the Swedish Cancer Registry between 1958 and 1996 and aged 20–54 years at diagnosis, and 1238 indivi...

OBJECTIVE Primary extragonadal germ cell tumors are rare and their histogenetic origin is not clear. We describe two cases presenting as primary retroperitoneal germ cell tumors without clinical evidence of testicular tumor. METHODS A 21 and 18 years-old patients presented retroperitoneal choriocarcinoma and yolk sac tumor, respectively. In both cases, testicular palpation was not suspicious ...

While there are national screening programmes for breast and cervical cancer, and raised levels of awareness of lung and skin cancer, the prevalence of testicular cancer among young men has largely been ignored. The document Health of the Nation was produced by the government with the aim of stimulating public and professional interest in health awareness and considering how it could be improve...

INTRODUCTION We report the case of a true hermaphrodite with testicular seminoma with resulting metastases to the inguinal lymph nodes eight months after radical orchidectomy. This is an unusual presentation of testicular cancer and, to the best of our knowledge, the first report of this kind in the literature. CASE PRESENTATION A 45-year-old Caucasian true hermaphrodite, raised as a male, de...

Testicular cancer is the most common malignancy in young men and its prevalence increasing all over world. The diagnosis of such a life-threatening disease at relatively age may have considerable devastating impact on numerous spheres everyday functioning. Although testicular treatment highly effective, some cases only symptomatic possible, an integral part which specialist nursing care. This s...

The incidence of secondary neoplasms of the testis during autopsies is approximately 2.5%. Although most secondary testicular metastases are due to prostate cancer, only a few patients with prostate cancer have clinically manifested testicular metastasis. We report the case of a prostate cancer patient with testicular metastasis who was diagnosed after the presence of a palpable mass in the rig...

Testicular cancer is one of the commonest cancers in men of working age, and is increasing in incidence in Europe and North America. One suggested mechanism of causation is that there is impaired differentiation of germ cells in the pre- or perinatal period, followed by malignant transformation in later life, possibly by a hormonal mechanism. Endocrine disrupting chemicals (EDCs) have been a ma...