Man's Positive Pregnancy Test Leads to Cancer Diagnosis With Reddit by Michelle Castillo. CBS News. November 7, 2012.
As a joke, a man used his girlfriend's pregnancy test and was shocked to discover that he tested positive. A friend of the man posted a "rage comic" on Reddit, also as a joke. However, some readers were aware that one of the chemicals produced by testicular cancer is also produced by women developing placenta. Anyone with that hormone in the body, man or woman, will test positive on a pregnancy test. While not discussed by the article, the implications for internet diagnosis and diverse uses of diagnostic tests are worthy of note.
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