The CancerWeb Report, What's New In Cancer: September, 1996
Testicular Cancer

• Milk consumption and testicular cancer - There is some evidence of a connection between milk consumption and testicular cancer. A case-control study from Cambridge University, carried out in the East Anglia region of the UK, using dietary questionnaires, provided more evidence to support this link. It reported an association between the cancer and milk consumption, but not consumption of other dairy products or fruit. The scientists described in the August, 1996 issue of the British Journal of Cancer, the matching of testicular cancer patients with normal controls, and controls with other cancers. Milk consumption was higher among testicular cancer patients, and those cancer controls with non-epithelial cancers, and lower in non-cancer controls and in those controls with epithelial cancers. There was a 39% increase in risk for testicular cancer for each extra quarter pint of milk drunk daily. By way of providing perspective, men with undescended testicles, a well-known risk factor for testicular cancer, had a more than 7-fold increased risk. (Davies, Brit J Cancer 74:657, 1996)