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Consultant urologist Dr George Lee Eng Geap, or a.k.a Dr G, explains to a father why his young son developed a painless swelling in his son's testicle and describes the condition as testicular cancer that can happen in young men.  Read more at https://shorturl.at/QLHRm  WATCH MORE: https://thestartv.com/c/news SUBSCRIBE: https://cutt.ly/TheStar LIKE: https://fb.com/TheStarOnline

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00:00In the whole month of June, we've been focusing on various conditions

00:03affecting pediatric urological conditions

00:06On this occasion, we're going to talk about something quite peculiar

00:10which is cancer

00:17You might be wondering why am I talking about cancer in young children

00:21In fact, surprise surprise, testicular cancer only happen in younger group of adult men

00:29In fact, we know testicular cancer commonly affect men between 18 to 38

00:36And in this age group, sometimes it even affect men in adolescence between 18 to 21

00:44Testicular cancer itself is quite peculiar and it's on the rise

00:48We don't know why

00:49Some people blame it on chemicals we're exposed to

00:52Some people blame it on the hormones that men are exposed to

00:56One thing for sure, if somebody has an undescended testicle

01:01your testicle is closer to your core body temperature

01:05then your risk of getting testicular cancer is 50 times higher

01:11So there are effectively two types of testicular cancer

01:15Seminoma and non-seminomatous germ cell tumors

01:20As far as the readers and also viewers are concerned

01:23there's not much difference between these two

01:25However, after we remove the testicle because of the cancer

01:30we will analyze it and see whether they are susceptible to chemotherapy or not

01:37The interesting fact about testicular cancer is

01:40Number one, it happens in younger group of men

01:44Number two, it's painless

01:48So the testicle itself feels hard like a nodular area that is not smooth

01:53which testicle should be

01:55and it is completely painless

01:58And therefore, painless lumps in the testicle is cancer until proven otherwise

02:04The third thing that is very peculiar about testicular cancer

02:08is that it is almost completely curable despite the stages

02:14Testicular cancer are very receptive to chemotherapy

02:19In fact, platinum-based chemotherapy can almost eradicate this cancer

02:24even in fourth stage

02:26Therefore, the cure rate is nearly 97% if the patient receives chemotherapy

02:34So therefore, despite men or adolescents being young

02:39we always teach them to do self-examination

02:42because that self-examination, if they find a painless nodule

02:46that can save their life because testicular cancer is almost curable

02:51For the month of July, we're going to start fresh

02:54We're going to talk about various conditions that affect erectile dysfunction

02:58And you might have heard that recently there was a study published to show

03:02that men who has got erectile dysfunction

03:05whenever they remove their foreskin or they do an operation for erectile dysfunction

03:11they realize that there's a lot of microplastics inside the actual penis itself

03:17So what is this all about?

03:19If you want to find out, stay tuned for next week's Putting Dr. G on the Spot

EP229: Testicle cancer, treatment and teens | PUTTING DR G ON THE SPOT

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