He spoke briefly of radiation therapy and the impact TC has had in his life. He recovered, but his friends and colleagues did not fail to note his words. Testicular cancer is serious stuff. Employment may increase your risk of TC noted Dr. Julia A. Knight, of the Ontario Cancer Treatment and Research Foundation in Toronto. In a recent study Dr. Knight found that employment as miners, leather workers, oil and gas workers, food and beverage processing, janitors, bakers, meat workers and utility company workers with an eye to electrical utilities in particular suffer increased risk, but are not considered, in and of themselves, the causes.
Leather workers have potentially five times the risk.
Seminomas were also found to be more common in the better educated, white-collar men studied. The possibility that work-related toxic exposure morphing seminomas into nonseminomas is also talked about in Dr. Knight s study. A Danish study found that fathers of men with testicular cancer are at twice the risk of TC, and that brothers of men diagnosed with this type of cancer are at 12 times the risk. A recessive gene is suspected in the difference between generations. It was said to a man who had lost a testicle to cancer.