What to Look for in a Testicular Self Exam

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Hello my name is Dr. Susan Jewell. Now in this clip I want to talk to you about a very important early a screening that you can do on your own on a monthly basis to help reduce your risk of getting testicular cancer. And this is called the Testicular Self Exam or the T.S.E. It should be done on a monthly a basis and as early as a twelve years old. So you should teach young, young boys the young adolescents about testicular cancer and how they can screen themselves by doing this a Testicular Self Exam at home in the privacy at home on a monthly basis. Like I said it's a early screening and prevention method and it's very easy and I will show you how the Testicular Self Exam is done. So when you're doing the T.S.E. you're going to use obviously the appropriate hand a fingers and right way to palpate the testicles. But some of the signs you look for is that you look, inspect your testicles, each one separately. And you feel for lumps and bumps and you look for any kind of redness or a swelling on the testicle surface. And any change of texture on the skin of the testicle and if you see any kind of like discoloring. And if you palpate the testicle do you feel any a pain or knot? So these are some of the signs that you should look for a learn to look for when you're actually doing the monthly a Testicular Self Exam or the T.S.E.

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