What else can it be besides testicular cancer????
My boyfriend just told me he found a lump on his testicle... IM SO SCARED..He has a doctor's appt. today.. Is there anything else it can be besides cancer?? Im really scared I feel like all my hopes and dreams are at risk here (him being around & potential children in the future) Please help any way you can.

he's said to me "its like a softer lump on the top part of the ball like where the tubes meet" "its on the outside, it's not inside the ball "
please don't thing iam cold hearted for mentioning kids.. it is something we both really want in the future, that is why it concerns me

look up the words variocele
and hydrocele

LD

A few years ago, I noticed a strange "lump" on one of my testicles as well. I immediately thought the worst and scheduled a doctors appointment. It felt like it was shaped weird, different than the other and there was kind of a lump-thing. I got checked out and I was fine, the doc explained how they can be shaped different, etc. IT might be something like that, and it just so happened he never really felt around down there too much. Best of luck to your boyfriend, and to you.

Testicular cancer forms in a man's testicles, the two egg-shaped glands that produce sperm and testosterone. Testicular cancer mainly affects young men between the ages of 20 and 39. It is also more common in men who:

Have had abnormal testicle development
Have had an undescended testicle
Have a family history of the cancer
Symptoms include pain, swelling or lumps in your testicles or groin area. Most cases can be treated, especially if it is found early. Treatment options include surgery, radiation and/or chemotherapy. Regular exams after treatment are important. Treatments may also cause infertility. If you may want children later on, you should consider sperm banking before treatment.

Only thing, I think of, it's will be remove once of them and will leave other of them. And depend on thieir family history.

It could be. If it is and if it was caught early there is a very good chance hell be ok in the long run. Good thing guys have two.

it could be alot of things and not cancer, like a benign cyst or something, from what i understand usually one testicle is much larger with testicular cancer