Has increasing public health awareness influenced the size of testicular tumours among adult populations over the last 40 years? | Zendy

Luke A. McGuinness | Zendy; Samer Obeidat | Zendy; B. Hickerton | Zendy; Ronan M. Long | Zendy

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Has increasing public health awareness influenced the size of testicular tumours among adult populations over the last 40 years?

Author(s) -

Luke A. McGuinness,

Samer Obeidat,

B. Hickerton,

Ronan M. Long

Publication year - 2016

Publication title -

journal of public health

Language(s) - English

Resource type - Journals

SCImago Journal Rank - 0.916

H-Index - 82

eISSN - 1741-3850

pISSN - 1741-3842

DOI - 10.1093/pubmed/fdw014

Subject(s) - testicular cancer , medicine , histopathology , public health , malignancy , incidence (geometry) , epidemiology , demography , cohort , gynecology , retrospective cohort study , cancer , pathology , physics , sociology , optics

Testicular cancer is the commonest malignancy in young men. Improvements in survival rates have led to campaigns to raise awareness in at-risk men. We assessed the changing size of testicular tumours given the public health initiatives promoting testicular self-examination (TSE).

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