Hello.

I was looking over my testes earlier on when I got out of the shower and I noticed that when I lifted my penis up, and looked down on my scrotum from above I could see a lump to the left hand side of the sctrotum, a little bit higher up than the testicle.

It appears to be its own little 'blob' or mass within the scrotum, and does not appear to be attached to my testicles. It feels like soft tissue, and is nowhere near as sensitive to the touch as my testes are, although after squeezing it gently it did not feel that comfortable afterwards.... A bit of a dull ache down there, but was not very sore or anything.

I am worried that what I have observed might be testicular cancer.


To provide a better description of what im looking at, when I look at my scrotum from above, it is not symetrical. On one of the sides there is a lump above the testicle (a soft lump that is not attached to it). On this side my left teste is slightly higher than that on the right hand side.

The problem is that i'm not sure if i'm just being paranoid, because my grandma was just diagnosed with bowel cancer, and the guy who runs the local coffe shop I go to also just found out he had testicular cancer.... And i'm thinking I might just be me freaking out over that, and getting paranoid about things in my body that may have always been there. But I dont recall ever having noticed it until the last week or so. But then again, I don't know if i'd ever truly looked until last week when I found out my friend had testicular cancer.

Thankyou for any helpful replies.
I am 22 years old if that helps.

I'm sorry if a thread already exists for this. I had a look for one but didnt see a general thread for this topic.

Thanks again.