According to Reddit post a man who jokingly took a pregnancy was shocked to find the test come through positive. The name of the man is not yet made public but it alerted him to a testicular tumor.
The incident was posted as a joke on the Reddit website which drew attention of thousands and comments kept flowing. More than thousand comments were posted followed by this post.
Few comments read:
"Jesus, exactly. Why don't we just all take a few each year? They're not that expensive anyway..." one wrote
"You may have testicular cancer! Get to an oncologist, tell them you took a pregnancy test and it came out positive," another Redditor wrote.
After a doctor visit a tiny bump was found in the man's right testicle, according to the Reddit thread.
"It turns out a fair number of testicular cancers make the same exact hormone," said Dr. Mark Pomerantz, a genitourinary oncologist at the Dana-Farber Cancer Institute in Boston. "There are very few things in the body that produce beta hCG, and testicular cancer is one of them."
American Cancer Society said people with testicular cancer confined to the testicle have 99 percent of 5-year survival rate. And also if any chances of the disease to spread to other organs, by chemotherapy, the 5-year survival rate is 72 percent.
"The testicle usually has to come out. But we're lucky with this disease, in that the vast majority of cases -- even if they're caught further along -- are still very curable," Dr. Pomerantz said. "It's one of the only solid tumors that can be reliably cured by even if it has metastasized."
Beta-HCG can be a very good indicator of tumor's response towards the treatment after being diagnosed of testicular cancer.
