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- At Significantly Higher Risk
- • For men between 20 and 34 years old, testis tumors make up 22 percent of all cancers and rank first in cancer
- incidence. It is the second most common cancer for men aged 35 to 39 years and third for those 15 to 19.
- • American white males have a rate four times that of black males.
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- At Slightly Higher Risk
- • Uncommonly, tumors are found in men with fertility problems. About 5 percent of men cured of testis cancer
- are at risk to develop another in the remaining testis within 25 years.
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