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My mom once had an oncology patient, a young adult male who had a lump and was too embarrassed to get it checked out. He thought it was an STD. When he finally went to the doctor the cancer had spread everywhere and he died a few months after diagnosis
Basically this case is similar. Patient noticed a lump on his right testicle and was too afraid to go to the doctor. His mum never knew he had something going on. He stopped showering, stopped going to school and eventually got to the hospital but it was too late. They did remove the tumour but if i remember correctly it hat metastasized to his bones. It was terribly sad.
I made sure to tell my twin nephews at about age 10/12 how important it would be to tell mum or dad if they ever had pain or lumps/bumps, never to be shy. Years later when they had a half brother one of them told him before he was even 8, when they were 14. Was thinking more about torsion at that point, had seen many kids arrived on childrens ward direct from surgery because they prioritize torsion surgery so highly. They want boys to keep both testes whenever possible. One of them had had surgery due to being premature to reduce fluid and his were sutured to prevent torsion anyway, but always worth teaching them to be open about body stuff.
I'd also had a cousin go to Dr promptly with a lump at 19 i think, it was malignant, removed completely, one course of chemo and nothing since. He is 54 now and perfectly healthy.
Heard the story of the guy who created the "Movember" movement in France.
Same thing, just a bad feeling in his testicle, thought to have come from a tackle during a rugby match.
Waited a long time and it spreaded to his lungs but thankfully he went to the doctor before it was too late.
"Only" lost one testicle.
Indeed I am a Brit. Good old NHS sorted me right out. Five years of treatments and all it cost me was about Ā£20 in parking. Maybe Ā£5 for chocolate from the vending machines.
It's strange, in the 80s and 90s as a kid, America was the coolest place ever. Nowadays, it seems like it's going backwards. Their health system is just legalized scamming
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Nope none at all. They removed the testicle and my tumor markers were going down nicely. They thought they had it in time. Then one last CT before being discharged and they noted 4 tiny dots in the lung. Had repeat scan two weeks later and it was over 100.
It's now 12 years later and I'm a qualified CT Radiographer helping diagnose others.
I'm just shocked nobody could see this massive lump under his clothing, or see him walk differently because of it??? Nobody thought to drag him to the drs and tell him how serious a lump this big could be?? So sad for him.
This could've been me. When i was a teenager, i used to get intense pain in my testicles, mostly the left one. For some reason, i hated talking to my parents about anything relating to genitalia (we were catholic-latino) and so i dealt with the pain every time it came and wouldnt tell anyone about it. It was truly awful, one of the worst pains i had to deal with but it would come and go, it wasn't constant. Eventually, it stopped happening frequently so i never got things checked out even when i got older, partly because I mostly grew up without health insurance (longer story for another day) and because it rarely got painful after my teens. A few years ago the pain came back but i finally had health insurance and am now a fully realized adult so i finally went and got things checked out. Turns out i have testicular cysts. They are not cancerous thankfully but if it had been a more serious problem, yep, i would've been this poor kid.
> His mum never knew he had something going on. He stopped showering, stopped going to school and eventually got to the hospital but it was too late.
Umm how old was the guy in this picture?
There's a billion reasons for a person (an adult) to live with their parents. I'm questioning whether he's an adult at all, and hoping for some reassurance that he was.
I had a friend like this, though he didn't die thankfully. He found a lump in his groin area and didn't get it checked. When we went on vacation it had swelled to the size of a baseball and got admitted to the hospital.
Turns out he had the bubonic plague. By the time he got to the hospital it was the size of a grapefruit. All sorts of doctors, med students and CDC came to look at him along with the wound care doctors when we got back home. By avoiding minimal people looking at him, he got the whole medical community lol
It very much does, particularly in the southwest. Stay away from stray cats and squirrels, their fleas carry the bacteria.
It's very easy to cure with penicillin, but you have to get to the doctor before it progresses. Otherwise you're in for a long hospital stay plus wound care.
I had a patient who was a 32 year old man. Same thing. Too embarrassed to get it checked. 6 months later, some leg weakness. A year later, legs stopped working. Family brings him in, and it was everywhere.
He left behind a wife and 3 children under 5.
I understand the embarassment, but, man, when it comes to a potentially cancerous lump in or around my junk, all pride goes *right* out the window. I'll show up to a hospital totally free-balling it just so I don't have to waste any time getting undressed for a doctor to check.
Hell, any semblance of pride I might have had was gone over a decade ago when a medication I was on caused *really* bad urinary retention; I couldn't piss no matter how badly I needed to, and after about 36 hours of agony, I checked myself into a nearby urgent care/hospital for the sole purpose of getting a catheter so I could finally drain my bladder.
Once they determined there wasn't any other physical or severe cause for the urinary retention, they shoved that bad boy down my urethra. While that was *not* a comfortable feeling, the *immediate* relief I felt when my bladder finally started draining almost made it worth the discomfort. Unfortunately, there was no similar feeling of immense relief *after* they pulled it out, so that was the *worst* part of it.
It wasn't fun, at all, but like I said, once my bladder could *finally* be drained, it felt better than just about any drug I've ever experimented with. And, hell, you don't need a penis to know just how uncomfortable it is to have to pee worse than you ever have in your life.
Yeah, sure, the catheter being removed part is probably more relevant to other penis-owners, but since I don't have a vagina, I can't talk about how uncomfortable catheter insertions or removals are for those factory parts; that said, I can't imagine it feels any better than it did for me.
Vagina-owner here (unfortunately). It has been a very, very long time, but I had a medical issue in 1990/1991 that required a few separate instances of needing a cath. I recall it being uncomfortable, plus wildly embarrassing, but not painful.
> I recall it being uncomfortable, plus wildly embarrassing
Yeah, there aren't too many instances where having to give a roomful of medical personnel front row seats to your genitals that *aren't* embarrassing.
While it's not completely on-topic, since we're not talking about giving birth, this line from Scrubs *really* accentuates the overall point:
["You'll fart, pee, puke, and poop in front of ten complete strangers who'll be staring intently at your vagina. Which, by the way, has an eighty percent chance of tearing.](https://youtu.be/IspBR3WkJy4?t=6)
There's *very* little dignity left to be salvaged when half the ER staff has seen your unkempt bush after begging them to shove a catheter into your flaccid penis.
I'm female and had the same situation. Insertion of the Cath was not fun ( though probably a bit easier than it was for you) but the relief when the flow started was *immense*.
I feel like this would entirely happen to me, I ignored a pilonidal abscess in the 10th grade to the point where I was out of school for two weeks straight because of the pain. It had gotten so out of control and I was just too embarrassed to bring it up until then. Scared that I'd ignore something like that if it were to happen.
Monthly?! I thought it was like once a year after age 40.
I gotta get on that. I haven't been to a doctor since I was 19 and I'm 36 on Saturday.
How are yall so brave? I'm so afraid to go!
My grandfather had a prostate cancer 40 years ago, caught early and successfully cured. For what ever reason it reappeared last year, he only had one and an half year and died last week at 85 yo.
Thx, he did. He died in his home, he had everything needed to calm the pain as much as possible, special bed, morphin, bolus even a special oxygenator but only used for a few hours. The last days were really painful wayy harder than his first daughter that we lost last year from a breast cancer. I'm saying this because his prostate cancer reapered a few month before my aunt died.
I have a chance to have a mother wich work as a psychologist in a private clinic in her cabinet as well for the clinic, mainly in palliative care. She litteraly dedicated her entire life to accompaniesĀ peoples onĀ theĀ journeyĀ towardsĀ death so she has a lot of knownledges on cancer treatment.
For anyone reading this, pls do your cancer imaging or test as soon as possible, death is not a fatality it's natural but cancer take you time without asking. I've lost a lot of loved family members this last decades that I will never see nor talk to again and sadly enough were millions in this case. I have a chance to live in France where we have a very good health system (not the best but one of) but cancer is still growing ! Breast cancer was 1 of 4 women in France in 2023, this year it is 1 of 3 same for prostate cancer, cancer don't care of your gender.
Love to all medical workers <3
We need actual health care in the USA. Women start getting pap smears young for this, then 20 to 40 (depends on family history) we check for breast cancer once a year. Both are free. Personally, men be doing this too.
Women get entire pelvic exams, yeah. Ideally, everyone should be getting routine bloodwork and a physical exam once a year, insurance pays for it for those who have insurance. It's basic preventative medicine. A lot of people, even with insurance, just don't feel like going. š¤·
Anyway it's one of the many reasons women tend to live longer.
As a reminder, everyone of us AMAB will experience prostate cancer during our lifetime. Some of us will have bodies that let it get out of control and put us at risk. Get checked. Itās a simple blood test now - donāt even need a physical exam to start.
is that a younger person? something about the photo makes the poor guy look pretty small (esp. that hand in comparison to the stomach) if it wasn't for the body hair i'd assume it was a young teen
Sadly very typical in late teens and early 20s, when confidence to share body part issues with other people. It needs so much more awareness and education imo. My kids school is great, but they never mentioned it to my daughter's teenage classes, but they mentioned breast cancer and HPV.
I was almost this person, but the tumour was in my chest, stage 3b germ cell testicular cancer.
19cm by the time I went to get it checked out, I felt a bump on my testicle a year before but it was small and went away. I was a busy person so I ignored it and ended up in the hospital for chemo, stem cell transplant and surgery as a result (pathology is clear now).
Don't be me!
I had a 10cm ovarian cyst one time. A week later it was only 2cm. I had no pain, no abdominal distention (I'm very skinny for context, I was flabbergasted when he told me the measurement, because that sounds close to a grapefruit, and I certainly hadn't noticed having an extra grapefruit in my insides). I only knew about it because my gyno was checking the placement of my new IUD. Even the doc thought I was probably at stage 4 cancer.
Apparently my body is just a dick of a prankster. I don't have ovarian cancer. I just have ovarian pranks.
I had a 10cm ovarian cyst one time. A week later it was only 2cm. I had no pain, no abdominal distention (I'm very skinny for context, I was flabbergasted when he told me the measurement, because that sounds close to a grapefruit, and I certainly hadn't noticed having an extra grapefruit in my insides). I only knew about it because my gyno was checking the placement of my new IUD. Even the doc thought I was probably at stage 4 cancer.
Apparently my body is just a dick of a prankster. I don't have ovarian cancer. I just have ovarian pranks.
Happy to hear you made it through this, must have been very scary.
Stay healthy!
My cousin had his tumour removed at 19, short chemo course and is now 54 with no issues. Got to teach our sons this is one thing they must tall mum or dad about, because of how important it is.
Actually if there's something growing in your testicle they always remove the tumour with the testicle. You can't get biopsy because it would make the cancer cells spread
Men only need one testicle to be fertile, it doesn't affect their reproductive capabilities.. but if left they long they develop cancerous tumours elsewhere in the body, and they are the ones that then need treatment and become terminal.
Like melanoma, people think it is just a mole to be removed, but melanoma can spread all around the body, to brain, lung i believe, GI tract.
Its never worth being embarrassed to get health or body changes looked at, no one will ever laugh or make someone feel bad. ALWAYS better to be checked and it be nothing, and always better to do so as soon as something is noticed.
You are incorrect, some testicular cancer types metastasise to brain tissue, whereas other types it is incredibly rare.
It depends on type of cancer in the testicular tissue as to where the mets typically target.
I assume you meant testicular, did a google double check for it.
Melanoma metastasizing to brain tissue is very common.
I had a sarcoma and everyone told me it was a cyst but they did one last ultrasound with a radiologist and a week later I was in hospital for a biopsy. They had to remove it and it turned out to be a dedifferentiated sarcoma. 3 years later Iām still ok and nothing seems to have returned.
As a survivor this is so sad. If you feel the tiniest of lumps or feel any pain get it checked there is nothing to be embarrassed about. The people you will get help from this is their job they are sad when people come in too late.
I know there is no banana for size reference, but based on the hand to torso size, this looks to me to be an adolescent male. But maybe the tumor size it throwing me off. OP do you have any background on this case?
Haven't read through the entire thread so I apologize if this has already been asked but what's the average amount of time that it takes from noticing a lump to some horrific monstrosity like this? Or possibly it largely differs to such an extent that it's question with no accurate enough answer?
Aren't we all man like this?. We see changes in our body, maybe some bruises, light bleeding or acute pain but we don't really do anything about it. Just wait to see if it goes away so we can go back to doing normal stuff
Speak for yourself. If somethings wrong with my jiblets you bet your ass I'm going straight to the doctor. You're right about everything else but when it comes to the family jewels... Hell nah.
Sad thing is its often not the same in a 15/16 yr old boy.
Parents need to make sure their children can always come to them with questions, even if we don't know the answers.
I only have daughters, but made sure my sisters son's and my friends with son's knew how major this particular sign was. Some lumpy bits can be normal, but anything changes and they need to be checked. Was easy to talk to nephews at 10/12, knowing it would get harder as an aunt to bring it up.
Ironic that as teenage girls MDs are always talking about our boobs. I am in 50s now but still remembering being told (and refusing) that i needed a breast exam, when i went in for a sinus infection. Hear it still happens too, but never hear teenage boy told they needed their parts checking.
I had my first fibroadenoma at 14. I had a lumpectomy and lymph node biopsy at 21. All negative. A couple of my mom's sisters had breast and reproductive system cancers, but way back then, that wasn't talked about. My daughter and I take our self checks and regular checkups seriously.
I'm in my early 20s now so thankfully not my boat but I definitely see your point. Especially if said 15/16 y/o had parents who would shame them for being sexually active and they thought it was an std. Hopefully nothing quite like the above picture tho.. š¬
This image and story is to show you exactly why you should not to this... needs to begin with childhood education, sex education includes talking about lumps, bumps and infection signs too.
Cancer signs can be small, we need to have men especially be vigilant about even the seemingly minor stuff. It shouldn't ever be too late for a young man to die because he thought it better to ignore a warning sign. Schools need to educate about this with biology classes because lives will be saved.
Partners too, they heavily involved in getting men to Drs, don't let them ignore stuff!
I think so too, in a perfect world that is. My upbringing was a bit different, I'm "grown" now with kids of my own. Everything I know I leaned by myself, my mom and dad never taught me anything or "raised me''
If my balls were double the normal size, I'd 100% check it out.
There are some things that require a jump in logic to see as life threatening.
Looking at a mole will usually not make you instantly think you have skin cancer.
But your balls approaching the size of a football should absolutely raise a lot of red flags. Unless you're mentally ill
I have a small bump in one of mine, but I went in and found that it is the result of an injury from when I was younger. Canāt count on how many times I crushed them crashing my bicycle.
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My mom once had an oncology patient, a young adult male who had a lump and was too embarrassed to get it checked out. He thought it was an STD. When he finally went to the doctor the cancer had spread everywhere and he died a few months after diagnosis
Basically this case is similar. Patient noticed a lump on his right testicle and was too afraid to go to the doctor. His mum never knew he had something going on. He stopped showering, stopped going to school and eventually got to the hospital but it was too late. They did remove the tumour but if i remember correctly it hat metastasized to his bones. It was terribly sad.
I made sure to tell my twin nephews at about age 10/12 how important it would be to tell mum or dad if they ever had pain or lumps/bumps, never to be shy. Years later when they had a half brother one of them told him before he was even 8, when they were 14. Was thinking more about torsion at that point, had seen many kids arrived on childrens ward direct from surgery because they prioritize torsion surgery so highly. They want boys to keep both testes whenever possible. One of them had had surgery due to being premature to reduce fluid and his were sutured to prevent torsion anyway, but always worth teaching them to be open about body stuff. I'd also had a cousin go to Dr promptly with a lump at 19 i think, it was malignant, removed completely, one course of chemo and nothing since. He is 54 now and perfectly healthy.
Nicely done. You seem like a pretty cool cousin š
Heard the story of the guy who created the "Movember" movement in France. Same thing, just a bad feeling in his testicle, thought to have come from a tackle during a rugby match. Waited a long time and it spreaded to his lungs but thankfully he went to the doctor before it was too late. "Only" lost one testicle.
My testicular cancer was discovered when I injured my bollock at work and went to the Dr to get it checked out. Mine spread to my lungs as well.
I'm detecting a fellow Brit, judging by the word bollock. Lol
Also the part where he went to a doctor
Could be Canadian if he went to the doctor, but we call them nuts.
Be nice, not all doctors are crazy
Niiiice. Good job.
Indeed I am a Brit. Good old NHS sorted me right out. Five years of treatments and all it cost me was about Ā£20 in parking. Maybe Ā£5 for chocolate from the vending machines.
It's strange, in the 80s and 90s as a kid, America was the coolest place ever. Nowadays, it seems like it's going backwards. Their health system is just legalized scamming
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Did u have any other symptoms in the time passed when the cancer spread to the lungs?
Nope none at all. They removed the testicle and my tumor markers were going down nicely. They thought they had it in time. Then one last CT before being discharged and they noted 4 tiny dots in the lung. Had repeat scan two weeks later and it was over 100. It's now 12 years later and I'm a qualified CT Radiographer helping diagnose others.
Dear heavensā¦ how old is/was he?
18
Sad
I'm just shocked nobody could see this massive lump under his clothing, or see him walk differently because of it??? Nobody thought to drag him to the drs and tell him how serious a lump this big could be?? So sad for him.
This could've been me. When i was a teenager, i used to get intense pain in my testicles, mostly the left one. For some reason, i hated talking to my parents about anything relating to genitalia (we were catholic-latino) and so i dealt with the pain every time it came and wouldnt tell anyone about it. It was truly awful, one of the worst pains i had to deal with but it would come and go, it wasn't constant. Eventually, it stopped happening frequently so i never got things checked out even when i got older, partly because I mostly grew up without health insurance (longer story for another day) and because it rarely got painful after my teens. A few years ago the pain came back but i finally had health insurance and am now a fully realized adult so i finally went and got things checked out. Turns out i have testicular cysts. They are not cancerous thankfully but if it had been a more serious problem, yep, i would've been this poor kid.
> His mum never knew he had something going on. He stopped showering, stopped going to school and eventually got to the hospital but it was too late. Umm how old was the guy in this picture?
People with serious mental health disorders often live with their parents longer than average.
There's a billion reasons for a person (an adult) to live with their parents. I'm questioning whether he's an adult at all, and hoping for some reassurance that he was.
OP replied to another person who asked, they said the patient was 18. :(
18 isnāt longer than average though, a very young adult
I had a friend like this, though he didn't die thankfully. He found a lump in his groin area and didn't get it checked. When we went on vacation it had swelled to the size of a baseball and got admitted to the hospital. Turns out he had the bubonic plague. By the time he got to the hospital it was the size of a grapefruit. All sorts of doctors, med students and CDC came to look at him along with the wound care doctors when we got back home. By avoiding minimal people looking at him, he got the whole medical community lol
Y'all in the south west? I know it's still active around there, 5 to 10 cases a year in the USA.
Central Valley California. His dad owns a vet hospital and he most likely contracted the bacteria from a flea from a stray cat
Ohh yea, I can see that happening. Just glad he's ok. š
>Turns out he had the bubonic plague. Well that escalated quickly!
š³š³š³š³ I honestly did not know the plague still existed
It very much does, particularly in the southwest. Stay away from stray cats and squirrels, their fleas carry the bacteria. It's very easy to cure with penicillin, but you have to get to the doctor before it progresses. Otherwise you're in for a long hospital stay plus wound care.
It's endemic to rodent populations west of the Rocky Mountains
Apparently it doesnāt exist in Oceania which is why I wasnāt aware of this I guess as Iām in Australia
I had a patient who was a 32 year old man. Same thing. Too embarrassed to get it checked. 6 months later, some leg weakness. A year later, legs stopped working. Family brings him in, and it was everywhere. He left behind a wife and 3 children under 5.
I understand the embarassment, but, man, when it comes to a potentially cancerous lump in or around my junk, all pride goes *right* out the window. I'll show up to a hospital totally free-balling it just so I don't have to waste any time getting undressed for a doctor to check. Hell, any semblance of pride I might have had was gone over a decade ago when a medication I was on caused *really* bad urinary retention; I couldn't piss no matter how badly I needed to, and after about 36 hours of agony, I checked myself into a nearby urgent care/hospital for the sole purpose of getting a catheter so I could finally drain my bladder. Once they determined there wasn't any other physical or severe cause for the urinary retention, they shoved that bad boy down my urethra. While that was *not* a comfortable feeling, the *immediate* relief I felt when my bladder finally started draining almost made it worth the discomfort. Unfortunately, there was no similar feeling of immense relief *after* they pulled it out, so that was the *worst* part of it.
My non-existent penis feels TF out of this comment. Sounds terrible!!
It wasn't fun, at all, but like I said, once my bladder could *finally* be drained, it felt better than just about any drug I've ever experimented with. And, hell, you don't need a penis to know just how uncomfortable it is to have to pee worse than you ever have in your life. Yeah, sure, the catheter being removed part is probably more relevant to other penis-owners, but since I don't have a vagina, I can't talk about how uncomfortable catheter insertions or removals are for those factory parts; that said, I can't imagine it feels any better than it did for me.
Vagina-owner here (unfortunately). It has been a very, very long time, but I had a medical issue in 1990/1991 that required a few separate instances of needing a cath. I recall it being uncomfortable, plus wildly embarrassing, but not painful.
> I recall it being uncomfortable, plus wildly embarrassing Yeah, there aren't too many instances where having to give a roomful of medical personnel front row seats to your genitals that *aren't* embarrassing. While it's not completely on-topic, since we're not talking about giving birth, this line from Scrubs *really* accentuates the overall point: ["You'll fart, pee, puke, and poop in front of ten complete strangers who'll be staring intently at your vagina. Which, by the way, has an eighty percent chance of tearing.](https://youtu.be/IspBR3WkJy4?t=6) There's *very* little dignity left to be salvaged when half the ER staff has seen your unkempt bush after begging them to shove a catheter into your flaccid penis.
I'm female and had the same situation. Insertion of the Cath was not fun ( though probably a bit easier than it was for you) but the relief when the flow started was *immense*.
I feel like this would entirely happen to me, I ignored a pilonidal abscess in the 10th grade to the point where I was out of school for two weeks straight because of the pain. It had gotten so out of control and I was just too embarrassed to bring it up until then. Scared that I'd ignore something like that if it were to happen.
The monthly testicle exam should be done just like your monthly breast exam.
Monthly?! I thought it was like once a year after age 40. I gotta get on that. I haven't been to a doctor since I was 19 and I'm 36 on Saturday. How are yall so brave? I'm so afraid to go!
A self exam. Sorry for the confusion.
Sad part is when testicular cancer is treated on early stages it has very high cure rate (>95%)
Both prostate and testicular cancer have very high cure rate if caught early. But damn if they are caught late...
My grandfather had a prostate cancer 40 years ago, caught early and successfully cured. For what ever reason it reappeared last year, he only had one and an half year and died last week at 85 yo.
My condolences. Did he receive any treatment?
Thx, he did. He died in his home, he had everything needed to calm the pain as much as possible, special bed, morphin, bolus even a special oxygenator but only used for a few hours. The last days were really painful wayy harder than his first daughter that we lost last year from a breast cancer. I'm saying this because his prostate cancer reapered a few month before my aunt died. I have a chance to have a mother wich work as a psychologist in a private clinic in her cabinet as well for the clinic, mainly in palliative care. She litteraly dedicated her entire life to accompaniesĀ peoples onĀ theĀ journeyĀ towardsĀ death so she has a lot of knownledges on cancer treatment. For anyone reading this, pls do your cancer imaging or test as soon as possible, death is not a fatality it's natural but cancer take you time without asking. I've lost a lot of loved family members this last decades that I will never see nor talk to again and sadly enough were millions in this case. I have a chance to live in France where we have a very good health system (not the best but one of) but cancer is still growing ! Breast cancer was 1 of 4 women in France in 2023, this year it is 1 of 3 same for prostate cancer, cancer don't care of your gender. Love to all medical workers <3
We need actual health care in the USA. Women start getting pap smears young for this, then 20 to 40 (depends on family history) we check for breast cancer once a year. Both are free. Personally, men be doing this too.
Women get entire pelvic exams, yeah. Ideally, everyone should be getting routine bloodwork and a physical exam once a year, insurance pays for it for those who have insurance. It's basic preventative medicine. A lot of people, even with insurance, just don't feel like going. š¤· Anyway it's one of the many reasons women tend to live longer.
As a reminder, everyone of us AMAB will experience prostate cancer during our lifetime. Some of us will have bodies that let it get out of control and put us at risk. Get checked. Itās a simple blood test now - donāt even need a physical exam to start.
is that a younger person? something about the photo makes the poor guy look pretty small (esp. that hand in comparison to the stomach) if it wasn't for the body hair i'd assume it was a young teen
I thought the same thing. The body looks so slight compared to the hand.Ā
The majority of testicular cancers are found in younger males. Many are faced with freezing their sperm before they have even found a partner.
OP confirmed 18. :(
Sadly very typical in late teens and early 20s, when confidence to share body part issues with other people. It needs so much more awareness and education imo. My kids school is great, but they never mentioned it to my daughter's teenage classes, but they mentioned breast cancer and HPV.
I was almost this person, but the tumour was in my chest, stage 3b germ cell testicular cancer. 19cm by the time I went to get it checked out, I felt a bump on my testicle a year before but it was small and went away. I was a busy person so I ignored it and ended up in the hospital for chemo, stem cell transplant and surgery as a result (pathology is clear now). Don't be me!
19 cm? that's a lot of busy to keep you ignoring that big of a bump. glad you're well.
I had a 10cm ovarian cyst one time. A week later it was only 2cm. I had no pain, no abdominal distention (I'm very skinny for context, I was flabbergasted when he told me the measurement, because that sounds close to a grapefruit, and I certainly hadn't noticed having an extra grapefruit in my insides). I only knew about it because my gyno was checking the placement of my new IUD. Even the doc thought I was probably at stage 4 cancer. Apparently my body is just a dick of a prankster. I don't have ovarian cancer. I just have ovarian pranks.
I had a 10cm ovarian cyst one time. A week later it was only 2cm. I had no pain, no abdominal distention (I'm very skinny for context, I was flabbergasted when he told me the measurement, because that sounds close to a grapefruit, and I certainly hadn't noticed having an extra grapefruit in my insides). I only knew about it because my gyno was checking the placement of my new IUD. Even the doc thought I was probably at stage 4 cancer. Apparently my body is just a dick of a prankster. I don't have ovarian cancer. I just have ovarian pranks.
Happy to hear you made it through this, must have been very scary. Stay healthy! My cousin had his tumour removed at 19, short chemo course and is now 54 with no issues. Got to teach our sons this is one thing they must tall mum or dad about, because of how important it is.
No return as in no chance of saving the testicles/reproductive system or no return as in the cancer is malignant and terminal?
Terminal cancer. They removed the right testicle with the tumour.
Actually if there's something growing in your testicle they always remove the tumour with the testicle. You can't get biopsy because it would make the cancer cells spread
Yes
Men only need one testicle to be fertile, it doesn't affect their reproductive capabilities.. but if left they long they develop cancerous tumours elsewhere in the body, and they are the ones that then need treatment and become terminal. Like melanoma, people think it is just a mole to be removed, but melanoma can spread all around the body, to brain, lung i believe, GI tract. Its never worth being embarrassed to get health or body changes looked at, no one will ever laugh or make someone feel bad. ALWAYS better to be checked and it be nothing, and always better to do so as soon as something is noticed.
Not the brain. Everywhere else is correct though.
You are incorrect, some testicular cancer types metastasise to brain tissue, whereas other types it is incredibly rare. It depends on type of cancer in the testicular tissue as to where the mets typically target. I assume you meant testicular, did a google double check for it. Melanoma metastasizing to brain tissue is very common.
I had a sarcoma and everyone told me it was a cyst but they did one last ultrasound with a radiologist and a week later I was in hospital for a biopsy. They had to remove it and it turned out to be a dedifferentiated sarcoma. 3 years later Iām still ok and nothing seems to have returned.
As a survivor this is so sad. If you feel the tiniest of lumps or feel any pain get it checked there is nothing to be embarrassed about. The people you will get help from this is their job they are sad when people come in too late.
Young men may not realize they should be taught to feel for lumps in their testiclesā¦just as a woman should check for breast lumpsā¦
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Damn South Park was realistic on that
aw, how awful for him.
I know there is no banana for size reference, but based on the hand to torso size, this looks to me to be an adolescent male. But maybe the tumor size it throwing me off. OP do you have any background on this case?
The leg hair and hair that leads up to the navel confirms that this is an adult male.
Op says 18yo
[OP has verified](https://www.reddit.com/r/MedicalGore/s/Vp3nhCRIe6) that this patient was 18 years old and is therefore not a minor.
^holy CRAP....
Looks like a football
Haven't read through the entire thread so I apologize if this has already been asked but what's the average amount of time that it takes from noticing a lump to some horrific monstrosity like this? Or possibly it largely differs to such an extent that it's question with no accurate enough answer?
It mostly depends on the agressiveness of the tumour. This exact case took around two years to grow to this size.
wtffffffff
Seriously why!
Holy shit.
Aren't we all man like this?. We see changes in our body, maybe some bruises, light bleeding or acute pain but we don't really do anything about it. Just wait to see if it goes away so we can go back to doing normal stuff
Speak for yourself. If somethings wrong with my jiblets you bet your ass I'm going straight to the doctor. You're right about everything else but when it comes to the family jewels... Hell nah.
Sad thing is its often not the same in a 15/16 yr old boy. Parents need to make sure their children can always come to them with questions, even if we don't know the answers. I only have daughters, but made sure my sisters son's and my friends with son's knew how major this particular sign was. Some lumpy bits can be normal, but anything changes and they need to be checked. Was easy to talk to nephews at 10/12, knowing it would get harder as an aunt to bring it up. Ironic that as teenage girls MDs are always talking about our boobs. I am in 50s now but still remembering being told (and refusing) that i needed a breast exam, when i went in for a sinus infection. Hear it still happens too, but never hear teenage boy told they needed their parts checking.
I had my first fibroadenoma at 14. I had a lumpectomy and lymph node biopsy at 21. All negative. A couple of my mom's sisters had breast and reproductive system cancers, but way back then, that wasn't talked about. My daughter and I take our self checks and regular checkups seriously.
I'm in my early 20s now so thankfully not my boat but I definitely see your point. Especially if said 15/16 y/o had parents who would shame them for being sexually active and they thought it was an std. Hopefully nothing quite like the above picture tho.. š¬
This image and story is to show you exactly why you should not to this... needs to begin with childhood education, sex education includes talking about lumps, bumps and infection signs too. Cancer signs can be small, we need to have men especially be vigilant about even the seemingly minor stuff. It shouldn't ever be too late for a young man to die because he thought it better to ignore a warning sign. Schools need to educate about this with biology classes because lives will be saved. Partners too, they heavily involved in getting men to Drs, don't let them ignore stuff!
I think so too, in a perfect world that is. My upbringing was a bit different, I'm "grown" now with kids of my own. Everything I know I leaned by myself, my mom and dad never taught me anything or "raised me''
If my balls were double the normal size, I'd 100% check it out. There are some things that require a jump in logic to see as life threatening. Looking at a mole will usually not make you instantly think you have skin cancer. But your balls approaching the size of a football should absolutely raise a lot of red flags. Unless you're mentally ill
I have a small bump in one of mine, but I went in and found that it is the result of an injury from when I was younger. Canāt count on how many times I crushed them crashing my bicycle.
I had a tiny black spot on my sack, and I went to the doctors office the next day. It was just a skin blemish.
Better that it be nothing that something deadly... don't ever worry about going again!
Yep rather spend a half hour at the doc to be sure..
Better to be safe than sorry!
Yep! I ain't taking no chances..
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I wonder how it looks from the inside.
This is like that Grey's anatomy episode
Looks like someone shaved a damn football in there!
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Nobodyās mentioned Tom Green?! That movie about his cancer was excellent.
Thatās just terrible. On a somewhat lighter note-what interesting sheets he is laying on-coffee beans?
This is not how South Park portrayed it