testicular cancer

English

Noun

testicular cancer (countable and uncountable, plural testicular cancers)

  1. (oncology) A form of cancer of the male reproductive system targeting the testicles.
    • 2015 March 4, Louise Taylor, The Guardian‎[1]:
      The biggest cheer of the night came shortly afterwards. St James’ Park finally found its voice to welcome back Jonás Gutiérrez into a Newcastle side for the first time since his diagnosis with testicular cancer 17 months ago.
    • 2005, Eugene J. Eisen, editor, The Mouse in Animal Genetics and Breeding Research, Imperial College Press, →ISBN, page 77:
      Recently, the construction of CSS has been reported for the mapping of a susceptibility locus for testicular cancer on mouse chromosome 19.

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