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Keep Your Eye On Your Balls!

Why keep an eye on your balls?
Testicular cancer is the most common cancer among young men aged between 15 and 35 - around 2,000 men are diagnosed with testicular cancer in the UK each year.
The number of cases diagnosed in this country has roughly doubled in the last twenty years – the reason why is not known.
The good news is that if caught early it can be very successfully treated with a higher than 95% cure rate. This is why testicular self-examination is so important – you can get to know your testicles and will be able to detect warning signs at an early stage.
 

Come along and see us at one of the Keep Your Eye On Your Balls ! road shows , where you can find out more about how to self examine your testicles and enter our competition with ball shaped prizes.

From 11-2pm we’ll be at:

• Hastings Campus - Monday 14th Nov
• Falmer, Checkland atrium – Thursday 17th Nov
• Grand Parade, outside cafe – Friday 25th Nov
• Eastbourne, Sprinters cafe – Monday 28th Nov
• Cockcroft, outside library – Tuesday 29th Nov
  

How to Self-Examine

• Get into the habit of checking your testicles once a month
• The best time to self examine is after a warm bath or shower, the heat relaxes your scrotum (the sac that holds the testicles) and makes it easier to spot anything abnormal.
• Stand in front of a mirror and look for any signs of swelling
• Support your balls in the palm of your hand and feel the size and weight of each testicle. It is quite normal to have one testicle which is slightly larger than the other or hangs slightly lower.
• Feel each testicle by rolling it between your thumb and fingers. It should feel smooth. It is normal to find a soft, cord like structure at the back of each testicle, this is the epididymis which carries sperm.

Click here to watch a video from Channel 4’s Embarrassing Bodies on how to check your testicles

What to look for
Watch out for one or more of the following

• A hard lump on the front or side of a testicle
• A swelling or enlargement of a testicle
• An increase in firmness in a testicle or in the scrotum
• An unusual difference between one testicle and the other
• A dull ache in the lower stomach, groin or scrotum
   

If you find anything that concerns you go and see your G.P. Remember that anything unusual in the testicles is not necessarily a sign of cancer but always get it checked out.

For more information

Take a look at:
www.talkingtesticles.org.uk  Awareness and information about testicular cancer
http://www.nhs.uk/Conditions/Cancer-of-the-testicle  The NHS site with detailed information on testicular cancer
http://everyman-campaign.org/  The Everyman site – Campaigns and information on increasing awareness of prostate and testicular cancer
http://uk.movember.com/  The Movember website