clove and Testicular-Neoplasms

The aim of this study was to investigate the knowledge, attitude and practice of testicular self-examination (TSE) among male university students from low income (Bangladesh, Madagascar), middle income (South Africa, Turkey) and emerging economy (Singapore) countries. Using anonymous questionnaires, data were collected from 2,061 male undergraduate university students aged 16-30 (mean age 21.4, SD=2.4) from 5 universities in 5 countries across Asia and Africa. Overall, 17.6% of the male students indicated that they knew how to perform TSE; this knowledge proportion was above 20% in Bangladesh and Singapore, while it was the lowest (12.2%) in Madagascar. Among all men, 86.4% had never practiced TSE in the past 12 months, 7.1% 1-2 times, 3.5% 3-10 times, and monthly TSE was 3.1%. The proportion of past 12 month TSE was the highest (17.6%) among male university students in South Africa and the lowest (7.3%) among students in Singapore. Logistic regression found that TSE importance or positive attitude was highly associated with TSE practice. TSE practices were found to be inadequate and efforts should be made to develop programmes that can increase knowledge related to testicular cancer as well as the practice of testicular self-examination.

Topics: Adolescent; Adult; Bangladesh; Cross-Sectional Studies; Follow-Up Studies; Health Knowledge, Attitudes, Practice; Humans; Madagascar; Male; Neoplasms, Germ Cell and Embryonal; Prognosis; Self-Examination; Singapore; South Africa; Students; Surveys and Questionnaires; Testicular Neoplasms; Turkey; Universities; Young Adult

To analyze the frequency, clinical and therapeutical aspects of paratesticular tumors encountered in Universiatry Teaching Hospital Ravoahangy-Andrianavalona.. This a retrospective study carried out on 12 patients with paratesticular tumor seen in UTH Ravoahangy-Andrianavalona between January 1997 and December 2007. Studied parameters were: age, discovery circumstances, primitive or secondary character of the tumor, histological type and their surgical management.. Twelve paratesticular tumors have been recorded amongst 1380 patients admitted for an urogenital tumor with a prevalence of 0.86% which represents one case per year. Middle age is 52 years (ranged from 6 to 68 years). Discovery circumstances were as follows: scrotal tumor in 75% of the cases (nine patients) and inguinofunicular tumor in 25% of the cases (three patients). Many histological types of tumors have been encountered: four cases of rhabdomyosarcoma (33.33%), one case of liposarcoma (8.33%), two cases of adenocarcinoma (16.66%), two cases of fibromas (16.66%) and three cases of leiomyoma (25%). Tumors were primitive in 10 patients (83.33%) and metastatic in two cases (16.66%). The surgical management were: large orchidectomy by high inguinal incision with lymphadenectomy in four cases; large orchidectomy by high inguinal incision without lymphadenectomy in four cases; large orchidectomy by high inguinal incision with hemiscrotectomy in one case; simple tumorectomy in three cases.. Paratesticular tumors are rare and polymorphous. Clinical presentation is variable and the diagnosis is often delayed. Treatment is essentially surgical. Our study illustrates large histopathological variety of paratesticular tumor.

Topics: Adolescent; Adult; Aged; Child; Humans; Madagascar; Male; Middle Aged; Retrospective Studies; Testicular Neoplasms; Young Adult