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Testicular Cancer
Now we're going to talk about an important piece of self-care. It's called self-examinations and this is especially important for boys to learn how to do once they've gone through puberty. I have my model here. Pardon its appearance. But I would like to share with you a little bit about something called testicular cancer. It's a very rare form of cancer, but it's one of those types of cancer that when it happens, it can happen to young people. So, between the ages of 15 and 35. So, that means that once a person is through puberty and a person notices that their testes have stopped growing, which is right around the age of 14 or 15, they should learn to do what's called a testicular cancer self-exam. The way that works is once a month, a person should feel through their scrotum their testes. And inside there's that testicle that feels sort of like a large grape. And what they're looking for is any lump or bump or change that they might notice. That's the reason I told people about the epididymus, right, the part of that's on the back of the testes that's a bunch of little tubes all coiled together. So when they're feeling their testes they can also notice there is the epididymus, that's where sperm is growing, no big deal, nothing to worry about, that's normal. What they're looking for is a lump or bump on the testes. Now if they do find a lump or bump, they go to the doctor. Most of the time the doctor just says "That's nothing to worry about." But if it is testicular cancer, there is medicine and treatment you can get. In fact, testicular cancer is one of the cancers we say we can cure, so if you find it, we can make go away for good and that's good news.
