Question

[ROH]

I have a lump near my epididymis on my teste. It feels almost like it's connected to the epididymis but is still on the teste. The epididymis near there seems a little large as well.

Anyways, I was sick recently and they drew blood tests on me, took urine samples, and did a chest x-ray. Everything came back fine.

My question is, if I had TC would they have found it in the tests that they did?

[Scott]

The blood tests would have to have been for AFP and hCG, which I'm sure they weren't. The chest x-ray would have picked up metastasis to the lungs.

It's probably something other than testicular cancer but important to have checked.

[ROH]

I've had the bump there for awhile and it hasn't really grown much, so I doubt it's TC. Would TC lump grow that much in about a 9 month time span? And since it's been there for awhile my guess is that it would have spread and then would have been found in the chest x-ray.

I have physical soon to check what it actually is.

[dadmo]

ROH:
One form of tc is slow growing so in 9 months it may not have changed. As Scott said it's probably not tc but get it checked.

[ROH]

The blood tests would have to have been for AFP and hCG, which I'm sure they weren't. The chest x-ray would have picked up metastasis to the lungs.

Could you explain this metastasis thing to me? Since they didn't find this, does it mean it isn't TC?

[dadmo]

It's good that nothing showed up on the x-ray but that doesn't mean that you can't have tc. It simply means that the didn't see any larger growths on the lungs. A standard physical has almost no chance of discovering tc, the tests need to be specific for the disease they are trying to find.