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Four days ago, the rage comic above was posted to Reddit by CappnPoopdeck. It described the true story of her friend, a man who decided to try his ex-girlfriend’s pregnancy test himself. To his surprise and confusion, the results came back positive. Funny? Sure, sort of. But also, Reddit commenters quickly noted, a symptom of a potentially deadly disease.
As it turns out—and as many Redditors hastened to warn CappnPoopdeck—a male positive pregnancy test could be a sign of testicular cancer. Med student and Reddit user Wecancallmeb explains:
OP should absolutely see his physician to be safe. Pregnancy tests are based on levels of human chorionic gonadotropin which is produced by the placenta, but in a male it can be elevated by testicular cancer.
When CappnPoopdeck noticed all of the comments about cancer on her comic, she immediately told her friend, who went and got himself checked out right away. Low and behold, as the follow-up comic notes, he had a small tumour. While it’s probably a bad idea to crowdsource important medical diagnoses, it sure is a good thing that the people of Reddit were able to sound the alarm when they noticed something fishy was up. [Reddit via CBC via Twitter]
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hmmm I see an opening in the market for a testicular cancer test kit.
thats a pretty good idea, pound shops sell em now, so maybe worth buying the odd one to check
I’d love to be a fly on the wall in the doctors office explaining that one.
gunna check with my doc if its true, dont mind peeing on a stick if it can check for cancer
This is a good business plan, buy them from the poundshop, remove from box, check they don’t say anything on the product about them being a pregnancy tester, print out a sheet of instructions and an explanation of what the tester is checking for (along with legal disclaimer) then sell them on Amazon/Ebay for a profit.
Does seem to be a valid test for it. Checking for lumps is probably more practical and cost effective though.
Low and behold?
LOW! I see a ship in the horizon!
*captain, do you mean we should go below deck?!*
Make it so.
I usually notice these things and would of pointed this out myself, but for all intensive purposes this one, pacifically, passed me by.
I can’t even get my brain to think of those things what you said.
You are no longer number one.
Is it just me, or is the link to the followup comment a mailto: link for everyone?
shit. that should have said followup comic
Same for me
Yup it’s a mailto.