When lawyer Surendra Ananth went for a check-up after experiencing pain in his lower back and below his stomach in March 2023, he never thought it would lead to a testicular cancer diagnosis.

“I thought it was a stomach issue so I went to see a gastroenterologist. The pain was on and off for three months and the doctor was doing everything but could not find the cause.

In July 2023, he experienced a sharp pain in his testicle and sought treatment.

An ultrasound was done and the doctors found a lump in his testicle that proved cancerous. Unfortunately, the cancer had also spread and his stomach and lower back pain was due to it spreading to the lymph nodes in those areas.

Surendra (above), 34, lamented that if he had done self-inspections which most men should be doing every month or twice a month, he would have noticed the lump early on and probably identified the cancer at stage one.

Because it has spread (metastasized) he was...