Originally Posted by pecos

I'd think that genetical and diet factors are more of a determinant than cycling -at whatever amounts of riding that can be endured by normal folks, including pros.

The little I know about LA is that he ignored pain in that area. The imflammations didn't heal properly. What nobody will know is whether LA would have gotten the cancer if he had been a basketball player or a couch potato, or whether the lesions -and inadequate handling of such that he incurred due to strenous training caused the cancer.

In short, I'd agree with folks in this threat that cycling does not cause TC per se.

But as with any other activity check your nuts. Often. To compare us men to women, our nuts are equivalent to their boobs. Not as pretty but from a medical standpoint they deserve the same attention for the same reasons.