Testicular Cancer
- Created by: catherine.pridmore
- Created on: 31-03-15 13:03
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- Testicular Cancer
- Symptoms
- A dull ache or sharp pain in your testicles or scrotum
- A feeling of heaviness in your scrotum
- A sudden collection of fluid in your scrotum (hydrocele)
- Fatigue and weakness
- A general feeling of being unwell (nausea)
- Environmental Causes
- Age: ages of 30-34 are more likely to develop testicular cancer
- Race: this cancer is more likely to develop in a white person or Northern or Western Europe
- Smoking
- Taller men are more likely to develop testicular cancer (between the heights of 6.1-6.3ft
- Medical Causes
- Undescended testicles can increase the risk of developing this
- Previous diagnosis of cancer
- Family history (inheritance)
- Infertility: men who are infertile are more liekly to develop this cancer
- People with HIV or AIDS have an increased risk
- Men who have endocrine disruptors
- Similarities
- The symptoms for testicular cancer are all specific for this type of cancer except for fatigue, which is a symptom for testicular cancer and leukaemia
- Inheritance is a medical cause for all the types of cancers
- Smoking is an environmental cause for testicular, breast, bowel cancer and leukaemia
- Symptoms
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