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A FURIOUS bachelor last night revealed how his life has been wrecked after a bungling surgeon needlessly cut off one of his TESTICLES.
Paul Miller, 40, lost part of his manhood after being WRONGLY diagnosed with cancer.
"After the operation I was told there was good news and bad news," stormed Paul who underwent surgery in November after discovering a lump.
"I asked for the bad news first and they told me they shouldn't have removed my testicle. The good news was I never had cancer at all-it was a water infection tablets could have cleared up.
"I went through a lot of distress for nothing."
Gutted bachelor Paul discovered the surgeon would have known the lump was benign if he'd taken a biopsy first. But he's been told he's unlikely to get a £7,000 payout for his lost healthy testicle even though it's left him SUICIDAL. "This has affected my relationships with women," the songwriter said. "When I go to bed with a girl, the first thing I wonder is whether she'll notice.
"And if I'm out with friends, whenever the word 'b*******' is used the first thing I think is, 'I only have one ball', I've been depressed and had serious thoughts of suicide."
Now Paul, of Bolton, is dreading Father's Day. "I don't know if I'll ever be able to have kids. I'm so angry."
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Iam a surgeon who has performed many of these operations and in fact it is quite safe to perform a biopsy, I do in all operations of this type.
During operation, vessels can be clamped so has not to allow further infection during biopsy which is a simple process for a trained surgeon.
On the rare occasion biopsy has shown no sign of cancer, the testicle can be safely left with the grateful patient.. ALL surgery of this type should include biopsy but sadly not all surgeons choose to do a biopsy, resulting in negative medical stories such as these.
This man has my full sympathy, not an easy thing to go through for any patient who is given this diagnosis, especially for one who has been wrongly diagnosed.
And too respond to the comment, "you can still father children".. yes you can but losing a testicle will severely damage any chance of that, each case is different.
By Martin. Posted June 14 2009 at 10:38 PM.
I've actually had testicular cancer.
Something like 95% of all growths on the testicle are cancer. You can't really do a biopsy on a testicle because that can cause the cancer to spread (if it is cancer). Removing the entire testicle is currently the safest way of removing the growth. I do hope a better method of diagnosis can be devised eventually though.
You can still have children with one testicle.
By Richard Smart. Posted June 14 2009 at 9:40 PM.
I wonder if he feels a right plum?
By ted. Posted June 14 2009 at 2:20 PM.
The story is a bit vague, would like to know more.
I feel total sympathy with this paul but do wonder why he will not receive the 7,000 ?
Why did the surgeon not do a biopsy?
A friend of mine is due for such an operation, will pass this story on to him, sure it will remind him to ask his doc if he will be having a biopsy.. dont they have to?.. docs cant just go around doing this and affecting peoples lives like this.. can they ?
By shaun. Posted June 14 2009 at 1:45 PM.
Thats just NUTS!
By ted. Posted June 14 2009 at 2:19 PM.