Of all the men who get some kind of cancer during their lives, only about 1 in 100 will get testicular cancer.

In the United States, about 8,250 men get testicular cancer each year.¹ That's about 5 men in every 100,000. About 370 men die of testicular cancer in the United States each year.¹

Most types of cancer are more common in older people. But testicular cancer is different. It's most common in men in their 20s and 30s.^{2 3} Of white men in their 30s, about 15 in 100,000 get testicular cancer each year.¹ But this risk is lower for black and Hispanic men.

Testicular cancer is becoming more common among white men.¹ About 3 in 100,000 white men got testicular cancer in 1973.⁴ By 1996, this had risen to about 5 in 100,000. The number of black men who got testicular cancer stayed at around 1 in 100,000 the whole time. Doctors don't know why white men are more likely to get testicular cancer than men from other ethnic groups.^{2 5}

The good news is that, even though testicular cancer is becoming more common, you're more and more likely to be cured. Treatments are getting better all the time.¹