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According to ABC News, an unnamed man may have detected testicular cancer by taking a pregnancy test as a joke. When the pregnancy test came back positive, the man drew out the episode as a comic strip and posted it on Reddit. One of the Reddit users commented that results may indicate that he has testicular cancer.

ABC noted that the Reddit thread later reported that the man went to have himself examined and a small cancerous tumor was found on his right testicle.

Experts told the news source that pregnancy tests detect the presence of a hormone known as beta human chorionic gonadotropin (hCG) in the urine, which can also be found with a lab test and is sometimes a sign of testicular cancer, as well as pregnancy.

"It turns out a fair number of testicular cancers make the same exact hormone," said Mark Pomerantz, M.D., of the Dana-Farber Cancer Institute in Boston, told the news source. "There are very few things in the body that produce beta hCG, and testicular cancer is one of them."

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