Testicular cancer is a malignant disease that starts in one of the two testicles, and also later in the epididymis and vas deferens may collect. In most patients, testicular cancer can be cured.
NOTE: Ask your doctor to whom the German Cancer Aid funded project by the year 2014 "second opinion testicular tumors," Internet-based, seek a second opinion from a testicular cancer specialist in the treatment of your disease.
The testicles contain different cell types that make up each may develop a malignant tumor. About 90 percent of all malignant tumors of the testis start from germ cells. It therefore referred to as germ cell tumors. Germ cell tumors are divided into two roughly equal common major groups: seminomas and non-seminomas.
Non-seminomas may form different tissue types (Embryonalzellkarzinome, teratoma, yolk sac tumors, choriocarcinomas, and even semi Oman parts). There are also rare - of testosterone-producing cells and the supporting tissue of the testis outgoing - and Sertoli-Leydig cell tumors. Even tumors (metastases) of tumors of other organs may occur in the testicles.
What kind of tumor it is, can only be determined by the histological (histological) examination of the cancerous tissue. The cell of origin for the treatment and prognosis of importance.
At 95 percent of testicular cancer in men occurs in only one of the two testicles. The disease arises from dispersed testicular tissue outside of the testis, so that the testicles are not themselves affected, it is called extragonadal germ cell tumors.
Frequency
Testicular cancer, with a share of about two percent of all new cancer cases a relatively rare tumor. According to the Robert Koch Institute cancer every year around 4,750 men a malignant testicular tumor. For comparison, colon cancer, there are approximately 37 230 men per year, with about 32 850 lung cancer.
Despite the rarity of testicular cancer is important because it affects mainly young men between 20 and 40 years. In this age he is - with 20 to 30 percent of all cancer cases - the most common tumor incidence in men. Less commonly, cancer, younger or older people. The average age of men diagnosed with testicular cancer is 28 years or 35 years for patients who suffer from one or Nichtseminom seminoma.
In recent years, in Germany and across Europe to determine an increase in new cases. About the causes of this increase is speculation.
Most is the increase in Denmark, Sweden and Norway. Besides genetic factors may also play an important role in nutrition.
In the early stages of testicular cancer is almost always cured. Even in advanced stages there is a good chance of recovery. About 90 percent of infected men to be healthy again and can carry out their work. Tumors of the testis are therefore an extremely rare cause of death. In 2006, died in Germany from the International Agency for Research on Cancer (IARC), 200 men with testicular cancer. The disease causes in this country about 0.2 percent of all cancer deaths in men.
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