What are the characteristics of testicular cancer?

What are the characteristics of testicular cancer? Testicular cancer is the most common cancer in men aged 15 to 35, but the overall incidence rate is not very high, and it is usually curable, especially in the early stages. So, what are the characteristics of testicular cancer? Let's take a look.

1. Testicular swelling: This swelling is usually found accidentally when bathing or changing clothes, or when the scrotum is slightly injured by some kind of impact and is discovered when touching the part. Most testicular swelling is not accompanied by pain, and there is no pain when pressing on the part. Testicular cancer may occasionally cause dull pain, but there is always a feeling of heaviness and swelling in the scrotum.

2. Testicular heaviness: Testicular cancer is caused by the massive growth of tumor cells, so it is a substantial mass. When it grows to a certain size, the weight of the testicle increases suddenly. Testicular cancer patients will feel heavy and even have difficulty walking. If you hold up the testicle with your hand, it feels like holding up a stone, with a certain sense of weight.

3. Acute abdominal pain: Testicular cancer located higher up can cause reflexive pain in the lower abdomen due to the pulling of nerves due to the downward hanging. Especially for cryptorchidism located in the abdominal cavity, if it becomes malignant and is accompanied by testicular torsion, the acute abdominal pain is very severe.

4. Hard testicles: Testicles feel like rocks when touched, and are very hard. This is significantly different from normal testicular inflammation, where the testicles swell evenly and are soft. Although the testicles are very hard, there is no pain when touched. Testicular cancer is also different from orchitis.

5. Gynecomastia: Inexplicable breast enlargement may also be a sign of testicular cancer. For example, tumors such as embryonal carcinoma, choriocarcinoma, and teratocarcinoma produce large amounts of gonadotropins. An increase in these hormones in the body can stimulate breast enlargement.

Everyone has some understanding of the characteristics of testicular cancer. The occurrence of this disease brings extremely serious harm to men's health and also causes troubles to their sexual life. I hope that friends can learn more about testicular cancer and pay attention to doing some treatment work for this disease in life.