The following symptoms and complaints may indicate testicular malignancies (testicular tumors):
Leading symptoms
- Painless swelling of the testis
- Feeling of heaviness in the testicle
- Pulling pain
Associated symptoms
- Lumbaralgia (back pain) or flank pain (in retroperitoneal metastasis/daughter tumors).
- Gynecomastia (enlargement of the male mammary gland; 7% of cases, especially in nonseminomas)
- Signs of B-symptomatology* or bone pain may indicate advanced tumor stage
* B-symptomatics
- Unexplained, persistent or recurrent fever (> 38 °C).
- Severe night sweats (wet hair, soaked sleepwear).
- Unwanted weight loss (> 10% percent of body weight within 6 months).
