VANCOUVER (NEWS1130) – What do Lance Armstrong, Tom Green, and Richard Belzer have in common? They’re all survivors of testicular cancer.

News1130 continues a week-long Movember series with more on a disease that few men are willing to talk about.

While it kills far fewer men than prostate cancer, testicular cancer targets younger men — those in their teens, twenties, and thirties.

UBC Urologist Dr. Richard Wassersug points out there is a much higher cure rate, but you have to check for it first. “If it’s picked up early enough, and it can be with a testicular exam, we can teach men how to do their own testicular exams. It can be picked up and it can be treated and it can be cured.”

“Change in size, sensitivity to touch… those sorts of issues are the first real indicators and so, they shouldn’t ignore those problems,” advises Dr. Michael Cox with the Vancouver Prostate Centre.

Experts admit the subject can be embarrassing for men to talk about, but Cox insists it is well worth it for men to see their doctor if they notice something is wrong.

Wassersug adds it’s a unilateral disease, meaning survivors tend to lose one testicle, and not both, but warns that can lead to reduced sex drive and body image issues.

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