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Testicular cancer is highly treatable and usually curable. [5] Treatment options may include surgery, radiation therapy, chemotherapy, or stem cell transplantation. [2] Even in cases in which cancer has spread widely, chemotherapy offers a cure rate greater than 80%. [4] Globally testicular cancer affected about 686,000 people in 2015. [6]
In the testis pure embryonal carcinoma is also uncommon, and accounts for approximately ten percent of testicular germ cell tumours. However, it is present as a component of almost ninety percent of mixed nonseminomatous germ cell tumours. The average age at diagnosis is 31 years, and typically presents as a testicular lump which may be painful.
Leydig cell tumour, also Leydig cell tumor (US spelling), (testicular) interstitial cell tumour and (testicular) interstitial cell tumor (US spelling), is a member of the sex cord-stromal tumour group [2] of ovarian and testicular cancers. It arises from Leydig cells. While the tumour can occur at any age, it occurs most often in young adults.
College student, 20, felt soreness in groin, thought it was pulled muscle. It was 1st sign of testicular cancer. He's now cancer free.
In older women, treatment is total abdominal hysterectomy and removal of both ovaries. [1] In young girls, fertility sparing treatment is the mainstay for non-metastatic disease. [1] Sertoli cell tumour. This tumour produces Sertoli cells, which normally are found in the testicle. This tumour occurs in both men and women. Thecoma.
PT-DLBCL is by far the most common form of testicular cancer in men >60 years of age. [2] It usually develops in this age group (median age ~65 years old, range 10–96 years) and presents as a painless testicular mass or swelling in one testis or, in ~6% of cases, both testes: [1] PT-DLBCL is the most common testicular cancer to present with disease in both testicles. [8]
Cancer of the female genital organs: (Cervical cancer, Endometrial cancer, Ovarian cancer, Uterine cancer, Vaginal cancer, Vaginal tumors, Vulvar cancer) Cancer of the male genital organs ( Carcinoma of the penis , Prostate cancer , Testicular cancer )
A testicular teratoma may present as a painless lump. [1] Complications may include ovarian torsion, testicular torsion, or hydrops fetalis. [1] [2] [3] They are a type of germ cell tumor (a tumor that begins in the cells that give rise to sperm or eggs). [4] [8] They are divided into two types: mature and immature. [4]