Testicular cancer statistics - Key Facts

• Around 2,090 men in the UK are diagnosed with testicular cancer every year.
• Testicular cancer is rare before puberty but is the most common cancer of men aged 15-44.
• The incidence of testicular cancer has doubled in Britain since the mid-1970s.
• Testicular cancer incidence is rising, particularly in Caucasian men.

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• Since the introduction of combination chemotherapy in the 1970s, survival rates for testicular cancer have risen every year to cure rates of over 95%.
• Now, more than 95% of men with testicular cancer are cured, compared to less than 70% in the early 1970s.

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• Each year around 70 men in the UK die from testicular cancer.
• Testicular cancer death rates have fallen by 80% in the last forty years.

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• Men who have been diagnosed with testicular cancer have a 12 fold increased risk of being diagnosed with a second cancer of the testis.
• Men with a first-degree relative with testicular cancer have up to 10 times the risk of testicular cancer compared to men without a family history of the disease.
• Caucasian men have a higher risk of testicular cancer than men of other ethnicities.
• A condition where one or both testes have not descended into the scrotum, known as cryptorchidism, increases the risk of testicular cancer.
• Men with low fertility have a higher risk of testicular cancer.

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*age-standardised to the European population 

More in-depth testicular cancer statistics can be also be found in this section using these links: incidence, survival, mortality, risk factors, molecular biology and genetics and symptoms and treatment.