Biopsy?

[Classic J]

Hi,

I heard on some site that if a urologist finds a solid lump in the testicle, that the whole testicle will have to be removed for examination.

However, whilst reading on another site I hear that they can just do a biopsy, which is removing tissue from the lump rather than removing the whole testicle to see if its cancerous.

So which do they do?

Thanks

[IowaBrian]

They take the whole thing you only need one so better safe then sorry, too hard to make sure that you get all of the cancer out. I don't think any URO would just try to take the cancer and leave the rest anymore, since the cure rate is so high after removing the whole thing.
brian

[Scott]

A solid mass in the testicle is cancer far more often than not, so it's routine to remove the testicle.