Danish scientists make testicular cancer breakthrough

Danish scientists have discovered a way to detect early signs of testicular cancer before it has started to spread. They hope their work could lead to a simple screening test for men at risk of the disease. As the BBC http://www.bbc.co.uk reports, using a technique to analyse a semen sample, the researchers diagnosed the early stages of cancer in a 23-year-old man who had been thought to be healthy. The study was carried out by the Rigshospitalet http://www.rigshospitalet.dk in Copenhagen and published in the journal Human Reproduction http://humrep.oupjournals.org .