Comic about man's positive pregnancy test sparks cancer diagnosis By
QMI Agency
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A man who took a pregnancy test as a joke has been diagnosed with cancer in
time to treat it, all thanks to a comic posted on Reddit.
Reddit the self-branded "front page of the Internet" is a social news
site with 43 million members and three billion monthly page views. Its users
are called Redditors.
Last week, Redditor CappnPoopdeck
<http://www.reddit.com/r/fffffffuuuuuuuuuuuu/comments/12kihx/pregnant_man_ra
ge/> shared a comic she'd compiled about a male friend of hers who found a
pregnancy test in his medicine cabinet, took it for laughs, and got a
positive result.
Redditors, thinking the comic was autobiographical, told CappnPoopdeck to
get tested for cancer.
"If this is true, you should check yourself for testicular cancer.
Seriously. Google it," wrote one user
"Testicular cancer releases some of the same hormone markers that pregnancy
tests check for, so although I'm not sure that it's 100% accurate it
definitely means he needs to get checked out pronto," wrote another.
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Pregnancy tests, in fact, detect beta human chorionic gonadotropin (hCG), a
hormone found in pregnant women. But it can also signal testicular cancer.
"It turns out a fair number of testicular cancers make the same exact
hormone," Dr. Mark Pomerantz, a genitourinary oncologist at the Dana-Farber
Cancer Institute in Boston,
<http://abcnews.go.com/Health/CancerPreventionAndTreatment/pregnancy-test-ma
n-joke-reveals-testicular-cancer/story?id=17653036#.UJvI0Ua1tk9> told ABC
News."There are very few things in the body that produce beta hCG, and
testicular cancer is one of them."
When CappnPoopdeck whom the CBC has identified as a young woman in
Hamilton, Ont. came back to the thread the next day and saw all the
replies, she let her friend know he might be in danger.
"Whoa.. just saw all the cancer comments... It was my friend that did the
test, I just made the comic for him.. but I am letting him know to test
himself for cancer immediately. Thank you for letting me know guys, we may
have dodged a bullet here!" she wrote.
She later said her friend would be getting tested.
On Tuesday, she posted another comic, this time in the form of a letter to
Reddit.
"Hello, Reddit. Many of you read the comic about my friend using a preg test
as a joke and it testing positive, which is a sign of cancer, as all of you
told us. Today he went to the doctor to be tested. And in his right testicle
they found a very small tumour, but since it was caught early, it can be
treated immediately," it reads.
"So both of us want to say thank you, and in all seriousness, if you are
male check yourself for testicular cancer regularly. If you're a girl, test
yourself for breast cancer regularly.
"Thank you again, Reddit."
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