article_snippet: A teenage boy has described the bizarre moment A teenage boy was diagnosed with testicular cancer using a pregnancy test.
article_snippet: And any man worried should not use a pregnancy test as a diagnostic tool.
article_snippet: It is not and never has been a standard test . '
article_snippet: The patient, who was not identified, took the test left in a man apartment by an ex-girlfriend as a joke - but was shocked to discover two pink lines indicating pregnancy.
article_snippet: the man said: 'I gave the hospital a urine sample, the pregnancy test came back positive, and I started chemotherapy the day after I was diagnosed. '
article_snippet: Throughout my cycles of chemo the hospital would monitor the "pregnancy hormone" through blood tests. 'the "pregnancy hormone had been really, really high, but the "pregnancy hormone was gradually declining which was great news, and the tumours in my lungs and abdomen were shrinking.'