Men Who Fail to Do This Risk Dying

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RacerX — Fri, 15 Aug 2008 18:55:57 GMT

I thought the vids were hilarious!

"Check your balls".. lol

Thanks Dr. M.

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mrkleen — Thu, 07 Aug 2008 15:28:57 GMT

Very interesting, It would be wise for anyone interested in the subject of CANCER to google OTTO H WARBURG and check out the wikipedia entry. He was a very well known medical researcher who was awarded the nobel prize in 1931 for his work with cancer cells. He essentially discovered that cancer is an anerobic organism and cannot survive in a rich oxygen environment. I do not know about you but I think that this should be headline news all over the world. If this is true and I believe it is do you know how many ways there are to get more oxygen into the body? Lots! I firmly believe the power players in the AMA and big pharma and the FDA will go to any lengths to protect the cancer business.

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C Ed Wright — Wed, 06 Aug 2008 16:41:55 GMT

According to Medline Plus, "Testicular cancer mainly affects young men between the ages of 20 and 39." ssl.search.live.com/.../article.aspx

While according to AARP's site, "Between 6,000 and 8,000 men will be diagnosed with testicular cancers each year. Although testicular cancer accounts for 1% of all cancers in men, it is the most common form of cancer in young men 15 to 40 years old. It may also occur in young boys, but only about 3% of all testicular cancer is found in this group." assets.aarp.org/.../001288.html

Both approximately agree that TC is rare after age 40. In other words, if you don't get it by age 40 you probably won't get it. And its risk factors involve obvious abnormalities of development. So if everything seems normal, sure, it wouldn't hurt to GENTLY check yourself annually until then. But if you're not an old-fashioned chimney sweep literally climbing down inside big open chimneys to scrub them free of soot & creosote*, and you don't have any listed abnormalities, TC ought to be the very least of your worries.

*(TC was once a common occupational hazard due to creosote toxicity accumulating in rarely-changed clothing in intimate contact with the groin area. Modern chimney flues are too small to climb into, hence are brushed remotely [much like a Lilliputian cleaning the barrel of Gulliver's musket], ending that risk even for any modern sweeps that still don't change their underwear on a regular basis, LOL.)

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Apoztel — Mon, 04 Aug 2008 16:04:54 GMT

I do appreciate the information that is provided on this site, but I wish that Dr. Mercola would refrain using seductive images of women and offensive videos like the ones provided with this article.

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Adam W. — Mon, 04 Aug 2008 13:13:13 GMT

I REALLY don't think you have to tell a guy to make sure he checks out his testicles once in a while!

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yanchyshyn — Sun, 03 Aug 2008 19:21:04 GMT

Re "squashing machine," I was at a hospital last year and got into a conversation with a woman who said her son was a doctor and proudly stated that he had won a "prize" for getting the highest percentage of his female patients to have mammograms. I was too amazed (naive me!) to ask her if the prize was monetary, and how much, but doctors are particularly incensed with me when I refuse to have one.

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CEM — Sat, 02 Aug 2008 21:16:35 GMT

What I want to know is why then isn't it recommended for men to go in for their "annual" check? Or are men somehow entitled to their privacy, whereas women are trained early on that they must delegate their female health matters to another and give a guy (usually) a peek every year?

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Greg S — Sat, 02 Aug 2008 19:41:23 GMT

Testicular cancer can also form in the chest. When I was 26 I had mediasteinal seminoma. It was misdiagnosed, and the tumor eventually grew to the size of a large sweet potato. When the doctors did a biopsy, they puntured the pulminary artery by accident. I don't know how I lived, but at 49 I'm still grateful for every day.

Stay on top of your health, and NEVER let the doctors dictate your care. Let them know that all information will be dicussed between you and them, and that all decisions will be made by you. Demand, answers, information, and cooperation.

My diet at that time of my life was just god-awful. I strongly believe that had I known then what I know now about nutrition, I would never have experienced my body going off kilter in that way. However I do not know if my mother took synthetic estrogen or not. If so, it was most likely something I was born with that lay dormant for yrs and then was activated by poor health. I suspect this is the case when TC occurs in the abdomen or chest, because the testicular cells have to already be there, and one day they decide to start multiplying. I could see this happening as part of a birth defect caused by synthetic hormones. As an embryo, your sex cells drop to where they are supposed to be for your sex. Some of the process may be confused by the drugs, and trace cells are left behind where they do not belong.

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Binky78 — Sat, 02 Aug 2008 18:20:14 GMT

Excellent Article. And the commercial unforgettable. I believe if parents, late teen young men and adult men everywhere could hear that commercial a time or two, hundreds or maybe thousands of lives would be saved through self-examination.

And should cancer of any kind strike...PURE GRAVIOLA...causes the cancer cells to self destruct.

Cancer can only live in an acidic body. So keep your ph balanced. Test kits are available at healthfood

stores nationwide. Be certain that you are injesting enough alkaline foods and beverages to balance the scales of acidity/alkalinity. Using the worldwide web, it is easier than ever to secure a list of both acidic foods and alkaline foods.

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curious7 — Sat, 02 Aug 2008 17:39:52 GMT

Reproductive cancers are amoung the deadliest of cancers, so we need to be particularly vigilant in checking our selves, and though I have little respect for, but making sure we consult our medical professionals in case of a problem. The treatment on the other hand, I say consult some one in touch with nutritional healing.

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squeegee — Sat, 02 Aug 2008 16:30:47 GMT

an acquaintance of mine died from TC a few years ago. he got DX'd around 19 and fought for two years and it spread and he died :(

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phillip.stern — Sat, 02 Aug 2008 13:34:56 GMT

Why was the description of symptoms censored? I read the censored article and had no idea what they meant until I followed the link to the original article, and discovered that *** stood for ***.

from mercola article: articles.mercola.com/.../men-who-fail-to-do-this-risk-dying.aspx

Other possible symptoms include a feeling of heaviness in the ***, a dull ache in the lower stomach or groin, a change in the way a testicle feels, or a sudden accumulation of blood or fluid in the ***.

from the original article: www.wnbc.com/.../detail.html

The most common symptom of testicular cancer is a small, painless lump in a testicle or a slightly enlarged testicle. It is important for men to become familiar with the size and feeling of their normal testicles, so that they can detect changes if they occur.Other possible symptoms include a feeling of heaviness in the ***, a dull ache in the lower stomach or groin, a change in the way a testicle feels, or a sudden accumulation of blood or fluid in the ***.

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slcbookworm — Sat, 02 Aug 2008 13:27:32 GMT

I think it is very important for men to be aware of this. My husband had tc and it was caught very early.

We were told we would have no more children but we had two more. It has been twelve-years since the cancer.

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Elton — Sat, 02 Aug 2008 12:54:17 GMT

Awesome comercial.

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KelleyEidem — Sat, 02 Aug 2008 04:06:38 GMT

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