Testicular cancer

Testicular cancer is not common, accounting for only 1% of all malignant tumors in the body, and is more common in young and middle-aged adults. Testicular cancer can be divided into germ cell tumors and non-germ cell tumors in histology.
Etiology:
1. Among the innate factors, cryptorchid patients have the highest incidence, followed by hereditary and testicular feminization syndrome, which are more likely to occur.
2. Postnatal factors are mainly caused by injury, followed by hormones and infections, leading to secondary atrophy of the testicles, cellular degeneration, and the formation of tumors.

　　Surgical treatment for testicular cancer will remove one testicle, will not cause infertility, and will not affect your sexual ability. If your surgery involves lymph nodes, you may experience difficulty in ejaculation. Radiation therapy for testicular cancer can interfere with sperm production, leading to infertility. For some men, sperm production may be limited for one or two years before healing.

　　Certain chemotherapy drugs can cause infertility, while others may not. When using chemotherapy drugs, you should consult your doctor. In most cases, storing sperm for future use is relatively successful, and sperm can be cryopreserved if you want to start a family life after trying to recover fertility.

1. Painless enlargement of the testicle, with a sense of weight in the substance, the mass is not clear from the testicle, and the light transmission test is negative.
2. Tumor metastasis or cryptorchidism, palpable mass in the abdomen.
3. Chest examination, breast enlargement indicates that the tumor has systemic endocrine effects.

　　The cause of testicular cancer is closely related to diet, personality, and environment. In terms of diet, foods planted and bred with hormones are the most dangerous, followed by incorrect cooking methods of food, such as barbecue, fried, baked, and overly greasy foods, which are also the root causes of testicular cancer.

　　1. In terms of diet, foods planted and bred with hormones are the most dangerous. Foods such as barbecue, fried, baked, and overly greasy are also the root causes of tumors; foods grown with pesticides and fertilizers should also be avoided. Do not eat leftover meals, which contain carcinogenic nitrites. Eat more root and stem vegetables: such as sweet potatoes, taros, corn, chestnuts, etc.; meat should be mainly white meat, followed by red meat: such as fish is white, pork is red.

　　2. Keep a regular schedule, avoid places with polluted air or work, and also stay away from radiation equipment appropriately: for example, computers, induction cookers, microwave ovens, and mobile phones should be kept away from the sleeping area; for places with loud noise, stay away appropriately.

　　3. Maintain a positive mood, as personality has a significant impact on the testicles. Because the testicular area belongs to the endocrine system, personality can easily affect it. Clinical surveys have found that a large number of people with testicular hyperplasia or tumors have negative personalities, unopenness, long-term depression, etc. It should be noted that in life, emotions should be vented reasonably, not suppressed, and problems should be thought about positively. For example, actively seeking solutions to problems instead of waiting for solutions.

1. Laboratory examination Tumor markers (TMs), AFP, HCG, LDH lactate dehydrogenase, PLAP placental alkaline phosphatase, especially AFP and HCG, provide extremely valuable references for the diagnosis, staging, treatment response monitoring, and prognosis of testicular germ cells.
2. Ultrasound examination is of great value in the diagnosis of scrotal contents diseases, with a correct diagnosis rate of 97%, and can directly and accurately measure the size and shape of testicular tumors. In addition, it has diagnostic value for lymph node metastasis of testicular tumors and abdominal organ metastasis.
3. Frontal and lateral chest X-rays to understand the condition of the lungs and mediastinum.
4. CT can more sensitively detect lung metastasis and retroperitoneal lymph node metastasis, having replaced intravenous urography and lymphangiography, and can also detect lymph node metastasis foci with a diameter less than 2cm.

　　While treating testicular cancer, patients should also pay attention to their daily diet. The following introduces the diet taboos for testicular cancer patients to assist in treatment.

　　Foods that testicular cancer patients should eat

　　1. It is recommended to eat more anti-testicular tumor foods: turtle, cat meat, kelp, sparrow, crucian carp, pork bladder, buckwheat, walnut, litchi, hawthorn, loofah, lettuce, umeboshi.

　　2. For obvious feminization symptoms, eat dog meat, dog tendons, sea horses, prawns, eels, oysters, turtle meat, walnuts, mutton, goat kidneys, and sparrows.

　　3. For lumbago, eat taro, chestnuts, plums, lychees, loofah, prawns, abalone, red dates, sea horses, and jellyfish.

　　4. For infection, eat vegetables, bitter melon, dregs of bean curd, eels, yellow asp, crabs, and toon.

　　What foods should testicular cancer patients not eat

　　1. Avoid smoking, drinking, and all spicy and stimulating foods.

　　2. Avoid moldy, salted, fried, and greasy foods.

　　3. Avoid warm and hot and positive foods such as mutton, dog meat, chives, animal tendons, etc., except for feminization symptoms.