Pregnancy Tests for Men

Recently, an unnamed man detected testicular cancer by taking a pregnancy test. When the test came back positive, the man took it as a joke and made a comic strip about the incident on Reddit. A user on the site commented that the positive results could mean that he had testicular cancer. The man had himself examined- a small cancerous tumor was found on his right testicle. Researchers are now asking, "How can this happen?"

It turns out that pregnancy tests detect beta human chorionic gonadotropin, a hormone in the urine. This hormone can be a sign of pregnancy, as well as testicular cancer. A fair number of testicular cancers make the same hormone. There are few things in the body that produces beta hCG and testicular cancer is one of them. This method of detecting testicular cancer could become a popular way to detect cancer early, without a doctor's visit. Expect an increase in male purchases of pregnancy tests.

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