Only 3 of 40 males with testicular cancer seek medical help due to stigma

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Only 3 of 40 males with testicular cancer seek medical help due to stigma
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A REPRESENTATIVE from the Southern Philippines Medical Center (SPMC) recorded around 40 patients with testicular cancer from 2017 to 2022, and less than 10 percent of this number sought medical help.

A REPRESENTATIVE from the Southern Philippines Medical Center recorded around 40 patients with testicular cancer from 2017 to 2022, and less than 10 percent of this number sought medical help .Dr. Jera Dean Travilla, chief resident at the Department of Urology of SPMC , said during the Kapehan sa Dabaw on Monday morning, April 29, 2024, at SM Ecoland, that of the number of males diagnosed with testicular cancer , only six percent go to their physicians.

He expressed that testicular cancer is one of the cancers that has a low mortality rate even if it is in its advanced stages and is the only cancer that does not have stage four. He also said that testicular cancers are one of those cancers that the treatment is almost perfect. The treatment of testicular cancer includes the surgical removal of the tumor, which doctors call radical orchiectomy; it is not just the removal of the private part but of the source through the spermatic cord.

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