Rare teen cancer

Thankfully cancer is rare in teens. Cancers which affect adults, such as breast cancer in women, are unlikely to affect teens. The cancers which do affect teens the most tend to be due to defects in the building blocks of like - defects with the white blood cells in leukemia for example.

One of the cancers that teenagers, specifically male teens, need to watch out for is testicular cancer. This cancer seems to attack younger men rather than older men. Lumps on the testicles may not always be testicular cancer but a doctor should always be consulted should any lumps be found.