testicular Neoplasia

Tumor of Testicle

The testicular tumor (called neoplasia testicular), is a disease in which are tumorlike cells (you vitiate and/or benign) in one weaves or both testicles. There are two testicles located within escroto (a loose stock market of skin that is suspended).

In the canine males of the benign tumors of the most frequent testicle he is the one of interstitial cells, however of malignant (cancer) semijust and the tumors of cells of Sértoli. He is therefore advisable that the clinical examination of routine includes the observation, palpación of both testicles to detect change of size, consistency, sensitivity and even the one absence or both testicles. When the testicle is not present in stock-market escrotal but it is in abdominal cavity and it has not descended is spoken of a criptorquideo animal when it has a single testicle says that it is a monorquideo. For the case of the testicle that never has lowered escroto (criptorquideo) it is important to know that these patients have greater risk of developing testicular cancer (23 times more) reason why a surgery of extraction of the retained testicle is recommended.  to justify. The precocious detection of the absence of the testicle, its location and its later extraction avoid the appearance of the tumor.

Treatment:
There is treatment for all the patients with neoplasia testicular, and most of the patients they can be cured with the treatments available:

* Surgery (extraction of the tumor in an operation). The surgery is a common treatment for the benign ones and most of the stages of the cancer of the testicle (malignant). The doctor can eliminate the tumor extracting the testicles (castration).
Also some of the lymphatic ganglia in the abdomen can be extracted (dissection of lymphatic ganglia).

* X-ray (x-rays use of high energy or other rays of high energy to eliminate the cancerous cells)

* Adjuvant chemotherapy (the chemotherapy consists of the medicine use to eliminate the cancerous cells. It can be taken in form of tablets or can be introduced in the body through a needle inserted in a vein or a muscle.
One says that the chemotherapy is a sistémico treatment because the medicine is introduced in the sanguineous current, travels through body and can eliminate cancerous cells outside the testicle).

Prognosis:
The prognosis in general is good, on all ways the probability of recovering (prognosis) and the selection of the treatment will depend on the stage in which is the tumor, if he is benign or malignant, if there is metástasis or not (if it is solely in the testicle or if it has been scattered to other places) and of the general state of health of the patient.

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