Risk of breast cancer increases with age more than three-fourths of women are over 50 at the time of their diagnosis. White women are more likely to develop breast cancer than African American women. But blacks are more likely to die from it because they are often diagnosed at later stages of the disease. This year, about 7,200 new cases of testicular cancer will be diagnosed in the U.S. and 400 men will die from it. The most common sign is a painless lump or swelling on a testicle.
Many men also experience a feeling of heaviness or aching in the testicle or lower abdomen.
Testicular cancer is the most common cause of solid tumors in men 20 to 34. It s four to five times more common in whites than in blacks. Other risk factors include family history of testicular cancer, having an undescended testicle, and testicular atrophy. Generally, the sooner cancer is detected, the better the outcome of treatment. When diagnosed in early stages, breast cancer has about a 98 percent five-year survival rate.