A comic post on the social news website Reddit, may have saved one man's life.
An anonymous user posted a story about his friend, who jokingly took a pregnancy test and got a positive result. However, a reader posted a comment advising the man who took the test to visit a doctor, for the reason that a pregnancy test can also be a cancer indicator.
The man took the advice seriously and visited his doctor, who found a small tumor on his right testicle.
According to the National Institutes of Health, pregnancy tests detect the amount of the hormone beta human chorionic gonadotropin (hCG) in an individual's urine which can be associated with testicular cancer.
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