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  • The common preys of this disease are those working in factories where the asbestos is used as manufacturing element and those living around these factories. mesothelioma such as pleural mesothelioma, peritoneal mesothelioma, pericardial mesothelioma, testicular mesothelioma. —  Sustainable Apple Pie
  • Diagnosed in 1996 with testicular cancer that had spread to his lungs and brain, doctors gave Armstrong less than a 50 percent chance of survival, but surgery and chemotherapy saved his life. —  News24
  • The cells could also be induced to differentiate into decidedly non-testicular neural cell precursors and they expressed the telomerase enzyme essential to keep pluripotent cells young and unspecialized. —  Digital50.com Digital 50 Daily Industry News RSS Feed
  • She has more testicular fortitude than some of the so called men in the Republican party and she is fearless. —  Big Dogs House
  • Examples of tumor markers include prostate-specific antigen (PSA) for prostate cancer, cancer antigen 125 (CA 125) for ovarian cancer, calcitonin for medullary thyroid cancer, alpha-fetoprotein (AFP) for liver cancer and human chorionic gonadotropin (HCG) for germ cell tumors, such as testicular cancer and ovarian cancer. —  All MayoClinic.com Topics
 

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  1. = French testiculaire = Italian testicolare, from Latin testiculus, testicle: see testicle.
 

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/tɛsˈtɪkjulər/
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