Tuesday, June 30, 2015

Understand The Risk Factors That Increase The Rate Of Acquiring Testicular Cancer

By Francis Riggs


With the rising cases of testes cancer all over the world, men ought to be vigilant in fighting it in all ways. This is a serious health condition that some men have little information about. With the changes in lifestyles and diet, this problem is prominent today and this should not continue. While self examination is good for detecting any developing sign, knowing the risk factors causing it and meeting your doctor for checkup is more effective if you are to avoid developing testicular cancer.

Boys develop their testicles while they are growing in the womb. Once these testicles develop, they then descend to the scrotum after birth. In some cases, the testicles may drop to the testicles a few months later after birth, hut this should not worry you in any way. However, if the testicles fail to descend to the scrotum after may be one year; your child could be at risk of developing this problem.

When the worst happens and the testicles of your child completely fail to descend to their respective storage bag, surgery becomes the most effective solution to this problem. Through surgery, doctors are able to move the testicles to the scrotum and this boosts the reproductive life of the boy child. However, this surgical process may expose the child to developing this problem especially if the surgery happens to boys under the age of 13.

If you had this cancerous condition before and recovered from it, you should not do away with close medical examination by your doctor since the problem may recur. Normally, this problem does not affect both of your testes at the same time. It affects one testicle at a time and if you had surgical procedure on one testicle, you should take more caution to the other.

Some people do not really understand that age is a factor to consider when preventing this condition. Today, men who are middle aged are the most prone to this cancerous condition in relation to the older men. For instance, men with age bracket of 15-49 years are more prone to this problem than men who are 70 years of age. Similarly, white men in Europe are prone to this challenge than men from other different communities.

You also need to know that family history is a great risk factor that you should not easily dismiss. If one of your close family members such as your father had this cancerous problem, you are likely to get it also. In fact, you are 4-6 times likely to develop this cancerous problem if your father had it. If your twin brother has this cancer, your chances of developing it may rise to about 75 percent.

If your endocrine gland experiences disruptions in the way it functions, this may also affect your reproductive health. You therefore, need to avoid distracting objects like chemicals, pesticides and other chemical preservatives in the laboratories to be safe. If these chemicals disrupt the endocrine gland, the cells in your testicles may develop the cancerous condition.

Lastly, infertility and other behaviors such as smoking can cause this cancerous problem. Infertile men are most prone to this problem and the best solution is seeing their doctors to prescribe the safety measures they should exercise. The cigar you take could also increase your chances of getting this problem.




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