According to a study in the March issue of the American Journal of Roentgenology, researchers have found that non-invasive magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) is a good diagnostic tool for the evaluation and staging of testicular cancer and may improve patient care by sparing some men unnecessary surgery,
Researchers concluded that medical imaging plays an important role […]

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A new study suggests that testosterone deficiency in young male cancer survivors often causes low energy levels and reduced quality of life, and these patients may benefit from testosterone replacement therapy.
About 15 percent of male cancer survivors experience testosterone deficiency, which is a late side effect of chemotherapy or radiation therapy. The young male cancer […]

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Previous studies have rarely investigated the inheritance of varicoceles and the potential transmission to first-degree relatives. A recent study at Mustafa Kemal University, Turkey, examined the first-degree relatives of men with known varicocele to reveal the familial risk for varicocele.
The study concluded that a significant increase in varicocele prevalence is present in the first-degree relatives […]

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According to a new study published online in the Journal of the National Cancer Institute, Boys with the sexual birth defects known as hypospadias and cryptorchidism are at risk for developing testicular germ cell cancer, but their relatives are not.
Researchers at Statens Serum Institute, Copenhagen, Denmark, concluded that men with a personal history of cryptorchidism […]

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Acording to Oslo University Hospital, Norway, patients with testicular cancer are at risk of having severe short-term and life-threatening long-term effects.
After orchidectomy and before further treatment patients have major mental distress which gradually decreases during the treatment phase. Gastrointestinal side-effects dominate during both chemo- and radiotherapy, with the risk of severe haematological, infectious and thromboembolic […]

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According to a recent study published online December 21 in the Journal of the National Cancer Institute, boys having sexual birth defects known as hypospadias and cryptorchidism are at high risk for developing testicular germ cell cancer, but their relatives are not.
Although hypospadias is known as a birth defect that involves an abnormally-placed urinary opening […]

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A new study at Haukeland University Hospital in Bergen, Norway, suggests that neurological side effects are among the potential problems faced by long-term survivors of testicular cancer who were treated with cisplatin-based chemotherapy.
The researchers found that between four and 21 years after the start of treatment, men who’d received any chemotherapy had a statistically significantly […]

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Boys diagnosed with cancer who have reached puberty currently have an opportunity to preserve their fertility: before undergoing cancer treatment, they may have their semen frozen and preserved in sperm banks. Younger boys, however, do not produce sperm, although their testicular tissue contains young cells that will eventually become sperm.
Now The Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia […]

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For men with testicular cancer, survival comes at a price: New research at the University of Oslo in Norway suggests that those who recover from the disease face higher risks of long-term illness unrelated to tumors.
The study, that will be published in the November issue of the journal BJUI, found that one in four survivors […]

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A rare form of testicular tumour has provided scientists at the University of Oxford and Copenhagen University Hospital with new insights into how genetic changes (mutations) arise in our children. The research could explain why certain diseases are more common in the children of older fathers.
Researchers describe a surprising link between certain severe childhood genetic […]

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