2023-07-13 07:58:19
For the earliest possible detection of testicular cancer, it is important to regularly feel the testicles in search of a possible nodule. Dr. Marc Galiano, urologist, explains how to do it.
How to self-palpate the testicles?
It’s very simple: the testicles can be examined a bit like if you had mittens. You put your testicle on the pads of your three fingers. The thumb in opposition. Roll the testicle back and forth between the thumb and fingers.
There are two swellings, one above, which is called the head of the epididymis. We slide our fingers, we arrive on the tail of the epididymis. If you move all your fingers up, you get to the spermatic cord. There is a big hard spaghetti. It’s the vas deferens, but a testicle in itself is totally smooth. You shouldn’t feel anything inside. If you ever feel like a small nodule, even the size of a lentil, it can be the subject of a consultation.
Why self-palpate the testicles?
Because there are two big spikes in the frequency of testicular cancer. It’s 20 years and 40 years. So the point is to feel yourself once a week in the shower, properly. So if we don’t know how to do it, we go see the urologist or the andrologist. But the palpation itself is not complicated
But you have to do it regularly, once a week, without obviously developing anxiety and feeling your testicles every two minutes. It’s no use. Once a week is plenty.
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