“I got a positive pregnancy test. I’m a man.”
“I was just messing around with some friends one night in college when I mentioned that I had found a weird lump on one of my balls. We were all joking about it, but I was really kind of worried. Then one of my friends told me he’d read on the Internet that if you pee on a pregnancy test, it can detect testicular cancer. One of my buddies said his mom had some in a cabinet and brought me a test and dared me to pee on it. I did… and it turned positive! Apparently pregnancy tests measure levels of human chorionic gonadotropin, a hormone produced by pregnant women but can sometimes go up due to testicular cancer. I made an appointment at the student health clinic for the next day. The doc said the pregnancy test was really old and probably just gave me a false positive, but he did think the lump was concerning enough that he sent me to get some real tests done. It turned out I really did have testicular cancer. I had surgery to get it removed, and my ‘boys’ are totally fine now. Did the pregnancy test really find my cancer? Who knows, but at least it got me to go to the doctor.” —Shaun P., 28, Boston, Massachusetts. [Note: Not all types of testicular cancer secrete HCG, so don’t rely only on a pregnancy test. Always get any lump checked by a doctor.]
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