Testicular cancer

I almost had to look up testicular before i put this thread up, i'm only 18 but i'm extremly worried. I have always noticed a sort of odd feeling when I tocuh the bottem of my testicles, but I was reading at about.com and noticed that it said any small lump or mis-shape of the round shape ball should be immediatley checked out. It's a small sortof flemsy extra-ness at the bottom of my left ball. it's noticeable and even my gf has said something about it. I have always avoided ever bringing it up but I would rather have it caught now then die from it. I'm scared... do you guys feel I should go to the doctor about this?

get it checked man ..odds are its nothing many mne on here have small masses on their balls and had it checked out and told it was non cancerous but something else...just get it checked tho make sure of that.

Definitely dude... If it were me, I'd make an appointment ASAP. Chances are it's not cancerous, but still I'd be scared too.

It sounds like it might be your epididymis or vas deferens, possibly inflamed. You might have a varicocele. Doesn't sound like cancer, but you should have it checked out anyway.

check it out with the doctor.

i think my left nut is bigger than the right one.

ya man get it checked out ,do yourself a favor and make sure its nothing serious but do get it looked at.better to be SAFE then sorry.dont wait any longer.go now!!!

you should definately get it checked, especially if you are closer to the 18, 19 y.o. range, b/c testosterone is at its highest, and you are at the highest risk rate, but it's probabally nothing.

I had a scare like that recently. Even the doctor thought I may possibly have cancer when he started examining me,but he determined that it wasn't on the testicle. He said it was a cyst that is pretty common that forms in the area where sperm mature. You should take that very seriously and get checked out. I felt sick all the way up until he said I was o.k.

Seriously guys in our age group (I am 19) are at the highest risk for test cancer so definatelly get it checked out.

I am 36 and two years ago I actually had my right testicle removed (radical right orchiectomy) due to testicular cancer. From what my urologist told me, usually masses that are exterior are 90% probable as non-cancerous while interior masses are 90% probable to be malignant. Of course, there are exceptions and this IS NOT a rule.

Mine was found during a routine pre-vascectomy consultation when we ended the session with the ole manual touch and feely test, which went from the usual 5 uncomfortable and awkward seconds to well over 20. It was then that I knew something was up, and when he said those words I shall remember forever, "you have a mass in your right testicle", I nearly passed out on the floor and was sick to my styomache all at once, etc.

The whole experience changed my perspective on life.

If anyone has any questions on this please PM me, and DO check yourself. As it turned out I would have never felt my tumors since they were well inside the testicle so it would not have mattered anyway for me, and the type of cancer I had did not produce markers that would show up in a blood screen so they could not tell that ay either. In the end to ultimately tell if something is cancerous or not, despite all of our modern technology, they still have to biopsy and get their handfs on it to tell for sure. By they way, testicles are not the hard balls we like to think of them as and therefore do not biopsy very well. Most of the time they opt to harvest the one testicle (if only one is suspect) to be safe and do the biopsy to confirm.

In the case of the original poster of this thread.... GO TO A UROLOGIST TO GET CHECKED!!! It has been some time now since your original post and hopefully you have done so. Don't do the ostrich and stick your head in the sand... in the end "it is what it is" and you will have to handle it accordingly. This type of cancer is the easiest to cure and responds very well to radiation so you shouldn't have to have chemotherapy treatments unless it has progressed into the lungs(which can not be subjected to radiation) or the brain.

First things first... go to the Urologist dude, a good one that is highly regarded!

-poke

By the way the usual demographics are:

white, slender males(of course) between the ages of 19 and 40.

In 2004 there were 7600 cases of this cancer forecasted in the U.S., which places it in the very rare column in my mind.