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Man Finds Tumor After Pregnancy Test | Essentials

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Man Finds Tumor After Pregnancy Test

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A Reddit post about a man's positive pregnancy test appears to have alerted him to a testicular tumor. The man, whose name has not been made public, was shocked to see two pink lines after jokingly taking the test, which had been left in his bathroom cabinet by an ex-girlfriend. The strange scene was drawn out as a comic and submitted to the website Reddit, where it drew more than 1,300 comments in three days from concerned strangers. "You may have testicular cancer! Get to an oncologist, tell them you took a pregnancy test and it came out positive," one Redditor wrote. Sure enough, a trip to the doctor revealed a tiny lump in the man's right testicle. Pregnancy tests detect beta human chorionic gonadotropin, a hormone in the blood and the urine produced by the developing placenta. Experts say beta hCG can also signal testicular cancer.

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Dr. Mark Pomerantz

Overall Sentiment: -0.298667

Relevance: 0.315064

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0"It turns out a fair number of testicular cancers make the same exact hormone," said Dr. Mark Pomerantz, ...
-0.204791"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."
-0.046178"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," said Pomerantz.
0.0455838"It's one of the only solid tumors that can be reliably cured by even if it has metastasized," said Pomerantz.
Sentiment Stats:
  • Number of Quotes: 4
  • Aggregate Sentiment: -0.2053852
  • Mean: -0.0513463
  • Standard Deviation: 1.7320508075689

Dr. Christopher Wood

Overall Sentiment: -0.0915002

Relevance: 0.204115

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0"It's typically spotted by the guy himself," said Dr. Christopher Wood, ...
0"It's typically spotted by the guy himself," said Dr. Christopher Wood, professor and deputy chairman of urology at the University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center in Houston. "We recommend men do self-exam in the shower once a month to make sure there aren't any major changes."
0.198032"If the patient had elevated levels before surgery, you would expect them to return to normal afterward," said Wood.
0.0782975"If the patient had elevated levels before surgery, you would expect them to return to normal afterward," said Wood. "If they don't, it means there are residual cancer cells that have to be treated with chemotherapy."
Sentiment Stats:
  • Number of Quotes: 4
  • Aggregate Sentiment: 0.2763295
  • Mean: 0.069082375
  • Standard Deviation: 1.7320508075689

Redditor

Overall Sentiment: 0.434046

Relevance: 0.186469

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-0.285671"You may have testicular cancer! Get to an oncologist, tell them you took a pregnancy test and it came out positive," one Redditor wrote. ...
Sentiment Stats:
  • Number of Quotes: 1
  • Aggregate Sentiment: -0.285671
  • Mean: -0.285671
  • Standard Deviation: 1.4142135623731

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HealthCondition: testicular cancers

Overall Sentiment: 0.171601

Relevance: 0.907676

HealthCondition: tumor

Overall Sentiment: 0.139757

Relevance: 0.330656

Company: Reddit

Overall Sentiment: 0.12154

Relevance: 0.329727

Organization: Dana-Farber Cancer Institute

Overall Sentiment: 0

Relevance: 0.32082

Organization: American Cancer Society

Overall Sentiment: -0.120515

Relevance: 0.300075

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