Byline: JANET McCONNAUGHEY Associated Press
Scientists have discovered that testicular cancer can lead to brain damage, seizures, memory loss and dementia long before the cancer is even detected.
The brain damage apparently is caused not by the cancer itself, but by an overly aggressive attack by the body's own immune system on a protein produced by tumors, the researchers said.
Doctors at Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center in New York report that men with testicular cancer and damage to one of the brain's emotional centers had a particular type of antibody in their blood. The antibody was found in most of the men's blood long before the cancer …
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