Testicular Cancer

Ultrasound screening reveals tumors not detected manually in infertile men

Published in Cancer Weekly, September 7th, 2004

Researchers at the urology clinic affiliated with the Sackler School of Medicine at Tel Aviv University in Israel have found that the majority of testicular tumors identified in the course of an infertility examination would not otherwise have been found at that stage.

Their report was made in the August 2004 issue of Fertility and Sterility (Incidental testicular tumors in infertile men. Fertil Steril, 2004;82(2)).

Eleven of the 150 men who had a radical orchiectomy (removal of a testicle) for testicular cancer at the clinic between 1992 and 2002 were referred from infertility clinics. Their tumors were discovered when they underwent...

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Source: Cancer Weekly (2004-09-07)

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