Some 2,500 men are diagnosed with testicular cancer in the UK every year – but one mum has shared how her quick action may have saved her teenage son’s life
Lisa Coote was working a night shift on Boxing Day in 2021 when she received the text that would turn her family’s life upside down.
Her son Ben, then 17, had found something worrying and wanted to run it by his mum. “He messaged me to say he’d been in the shower and found a lump on his testicle,” she remembers. “I tried to play it down, replying, âTry not to worry.'”
Back home, Ben was reassured. He says: “When I found the lump I just thought, âWhat’s that?!’ Then I got a bit scared being the only one who knew and wanted my mum to be in on the situation.”
But while Lisa, a clinical support nurse from Bolton, Greater Manchester, knew the lump could be caused by many things, she was concerned. The following morning she suggested he get it checked out.