Pete was told he had groin strain - it wasn't it was cancer

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by talkhealth on Tue Jul 03, 2012 10:44 am

Pete was told he had groin strain - it wasn't it was cancer

When Pete Banks noticed a small lump in his testicle, he wasn’t particularly worried. The 28-year-old engineer from Leamington Spa was in excellent health and, indeed, his GP suggested it was just an infection or a pulled muscle. But within weeks Pete started having back pain. Blood tests revealed he had testicular cancer, which had spread to his lower abdomen and lungs. He died 8 months later.

Every year, 2,000 men in Britain are told they have testicular cancer. It’s the most common form of cancer in men aged between 15 and 44. But even though testicular cancer is highly treatable, 70 men die from it each year. As Pete’s girlfriend Anna Haywood explains: ‘Testicular cancer is 97 per cent curable — but only if it’s caught early.
‘Because Pete was so young, cancer was simply not something he would even have considered, especially as he was never ill. 'But if he had checked himself regularly, I have no doubt he’d be alive today.’


Read more on this story and find out what signs you should look out for at //www.dailymail.co.uk/health/article-2167 ... ed-28.html
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