With at least four world-class athletes in the last decade being diagnosed with TC, what each story has in common is that the men ignored symptoms until they had to take medical steps to save their lives. In comparison to the approach men have taken to testicular cancer, women have banded together to fight breast cancer as if it is the only way women die. Bob Losure, a former Tulsa newsman currently of CNN, spoke of his experience with TC at the April 19th Tulsa Press Club Gridiron show. 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.