Of all the men who get some kind of cancer during their lives, only about 1 in 100 will get testicular cancer.

In the United States, about 8,250 men get testicular cancer each year.

 

 

 

 

 

Source:
American Cancer Society.
What are the key statistics about testicular cancer?
November 2007. Available at http://www.cancer.org (accessed on 2 June 2009).

 

 

 

 

 

¹ That's about 5 men in every 100,000. About 370 men die of testicular cancer in the United States each year.

 

 

 

 

 

Source:
American Cancer Society.
What are the key statistics about testicular cancer?
November 2007. Available at http://www.cancer.org (accessed on 2 June 2009).

 

 

 

 

 

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Most types of cancer are more common in older people. But testicular cancer is different. It's most common in men in their 20s and 30s.

 

 

 

 

 

Source:
Dearnaley DP, Huddart RA, Horwich A.
Managing testicular cancer.
BMJ. 2001; 322: 1583-1588.

 

 

 

 

 

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Source:
Moller H.
Cancer atlas of the United Kingdom and Ireland 1991-2000: chapter 22, testis.
Available at http://www.statistics.gov.uk/statbase/Product.asp?vlnk=14059 (accessed on 1 June 2009).

 

 

 

 

 

³ Of white men in their 30s, about 15 in 100,000 get testicular cancer each year.

 

 

 

 

 

Source:
American Cancer Society.
What are the key statistics about testicular cancer?
November 2007. Available at http://www.cancer.org (accessed on 2 June 2009).

 

 

 

 

 

¹ But this risk is lower for black and Hispanic men.

Testicular cancer is becoming more common among white men.

 

 

 

 

 

Source:
American Cancer Society.
What are the key statistics about testicular cancer?
November 2007. Available at http://www.cancer.org (accessed on 2 June 2009).

 

 

 

 

 

¹ About 3 in 100,000 white men got testicular cancer in 1973.

 

 

 

 

 

Source:
Stat Bite.
U.S. incidence of testicular cancer.
Journal of the National Cancer Institute. 1999; 91: 1803.

 

 

 

 

 

⁴ By 1996, this had risen to about 5 in 100,000. The number of black men who got testicular cancer stayed at around 1 in 100,000 the whole time. Doctors don't know why white men are more likely to get testicular cancer than men from other ethnic groups.

 

 

 

 

 

Source:
Dearnaley DP, Huddart RA, Horwich A.
Managing testicular cancer.
BMJ. 2001; 322: 1583-1588.

 

 

 

 

 

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Source:
Moller H.
Cancer atlas of the United Kingdom and Ireland 1991-2000: chapter 22, testis.
Available at http://www.statistics.gov.uk/statbase/Product.asp?vlnk=14059 (accessed on 1 June 2009).

 

 

 

 

 

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The good news is that, even though testicular cancer is becoming more common, treatments are getting better all the time.

 

 

 

 

 

Source:
American Cancer Society.
What are the key statistics about testicular cancer?
November 2007. Available at http://www.cancer.org (accessed on 2 June 2009).

 

 

 

 

 

¹ You have a high chance of a complete recovery.

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