How Common is Testicular cancer in teenagers?

jc.How Common is Testicular cancer in teenagers?
1 percent of all male cancers are testicular, with an incidence of two per 100,000 in the adult male population. In teenagers and young men, however, the incidence may be as high as one in 10,000, and it may be slowly increasing.How Common is Testicular cancer in teenagers?
Testicular cancer accounts for only 1 percent of all cancers in men in the United States. About 8,000 men are diagnosed with testicular cancer, and about 390 men die of this disease each year (1). Testicular cancer occurs most often in men between the ages of 20 and 39, and is the most common form of cancer in men between the ages of 15 and 34. It is most common in white men, especially those of Scandinavian descent. The testicular cancer rate has more than doubled among white men in the past 40 years, but has only recently begun to increase among black men. The reason for the racial differences in incidence is not known.
Let's put it this way . . cancer in teenagers is considered rare and so any type of cancer a teen gets seems to send shockwaves through the community. So lets get 'rare' out of the way and look only at teenagers as a group . . out of the teenage boy group testicular cancer is not the same as the testicular cancer his father or grandfather may get .. childhood and adolescent cancers are biologically differerent. Teens tend to get 'germ cell' cancers of the testicle if male and if female it is the ovaries. Germ cells make up sperm in males and in females the egg. Testicular cancer in the age group 15-29 is the most COMMON diagnosis of solid tumors. Ten years ago testicular cancer for this group hovered at 11 percent out of all cancers in this age group. Or 120 new cases each year.





There are more cases of testicular cancer (germ cell) in this age group than any other . . the older a male gets the less likely to get this type of testicular cancer.





http://seer.cancer.gov/publications/aya/鈥?/a>





Please be aware that this is older data and it is far more likely that there is even more cases of testicular cancer in this age group now as statistics begin to improve. Adolescents and young adult cancer data is often not accurate as a whole.





I've known two young men with testicular cancer . . they didn't have germ cell (although one was misdiagnosed as germ cell originally) they had an even rarer form . . they had sarcoma of the testicle. One of them died and the other is currently attending college with no evidence of disease.





You can read a story about a teen with testicular cancer:


http://www.testicularcancer.org/abouttc-鈥?/a>
The rate of testicular cancer is only about 1% of all cancers in men, so as a cancer, it is not very common at all.





The usual age group is anywhere between 15 and 35 years old, but the highest rates are in the 25-35 age group.





The cure rate is 90% if diagnosed early.
Testicular cancer is the most common form of cancer in men between the ages of 15 and 35. It can occur in older men, and rarely, in younger boys.

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