Information About Testicular Cancer
4. Genetics
Genetic factors do play a role in testicular cancer. Although 90 percent of males who develop testicular cancer do not have family members with the disease, research shows that having a father or brother with testicular cancer increases the risk.
Researchers believe this may be due, in part, to childhood environmental exposures shared between siblings, and many of the risk factors for developing testicular cancer are genetic.
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