How to Examine Your Testicles for Testicular Cancer
How to Examine Your Testicles for Testicular Cancer
Did you know that performing a monthly testicular examine is one of the best ways to identify the early symptoms of testicular cancer? Here are some tips you should know when you start examining your testicles. Both of the testicle eggs, should be similar in size and hanging height. If you think one of them is significantly lower, it is it possibly the result of a long-standing undetected infection, not cancer.
Typically One testicle will always hangs lower than the other, this allows you to put your legs together without injury. When you inspect yourself every month, you should do so after the shower because your scrotum is moist, warm and soft. Please your testicle between your fingers. They must feel like a boiled egg (without shell, of course) about 3,5-4 cm in diameter, the size should not vary by more than 5-6 mm.
When you are touching the top of the testicle, you’ll will feel the appendage testis – a thin funicle. If you can easily find it, you can just let it go – anything attached to appendage or free lying next to it, almost certainly benign (unfortunately, this cannot be said about the entities associated with the testicle). Inside the appendage there is a tortuous duct, which connects the top of the testicle with a thick sperm duct.
If you find any sign of unusual swelling, odd bumps or other abnormalities that you might be worried about you can conduct a simple diagnostic test. Go into a dark room and place a lamp behind your scrotum and turn it on. Be very careful not to place the lamp too close to your scrotum because you will burn you nuts. Then if the light easily passes through it, the tumor, most likely filled with liquid – a symptom typical of harmless hydropsy testicle cyst or seed funicle. Regardless you should still visit a doctor to have it looked at closer.
Testicular Cancer is a very rare disease and very few testicles have malignant tumors but it is always best to have the doctor carefully examine your testicles and to ensure that any abnormal lumps are tested for possible cancer. Fortunately, an experienced urologist can diagnose the majority of the benign lumps upon closer inspection at their office.
In most cases, the doctor will ask for you to expose the scrotum in order to touch them and make a more detailed examination of testicles. At the very worst case, if they still feel you might have testicular cancer, then the doctor may remove a testicle. In most cases of suspected testicular cancer, the doctors will not perform a biopsy because there is a greater chance in spreading the malignant cells to the other testicle.
A common testicular cancer symptom is a pain and a feeling of heaviness in the scrotum. In addition, almost all cases of testicles cancer start with a small and painless lump (tumor).
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