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Doctor, there’s a face on my tumor.

Jill

At least it’s not an image of the Virgin Mary:

The image of the man’s face, seemingly in some distress, was sent to Urology, the International Society of Urology’s official journal, and was published in the journal’s September volume.

G. Gregory Roberts and Naji J. Touma, from Queen’s University in Ontario, Canada, had conducted the ultrasound to examine an unusual mass in the testicle of a 45-year-old patient.

Naturally, their reaction was to seriously consider whether this was a sign from the gods:

“A brief debate ensued on whether the image could have been a sign from a deity (perhaps ‘Min,’ the Egyptian god of male virility); however, the consensus deemed it a mere coincidental occurrence rather than a divine proclamation.”

The testicle was removed and the mass was discovered to be harmless.

SCIENCE!

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12 thoughts on Doctor, there’s a face on my tumor.

  3. Oh bummer. Dude lost his nut and the mass was harmless. Better safe than sorry though. And next we can set up church in front of a toilet door in Glasgow.

  6. It does look weidly like a face. I see a horror movie franchise in this, kind of like that White Noise flick where EVPs were supposed to carry messages from the dead or some crap: “Doctor, what is it?” “You’re haunted–IN YOUR TESTICLES.”

    I call dibs on all rights.

  8. no where does it say they were seriously considering it be a sign from any diety. doctors/scientists/academics exist in the real world and make jokes that reference/mock tropes. Miraculous Face in the Whatever is a trope that is rife for the mockery. I’d be more irritated that they published it to a journal – did they ask the patients permission (etc)?

  9. Laura: Provided they’re careful to not publish identifying details, they generally don’t have to ask the patients permission. There’s a clause to that effect somewhere on page 18 or so of the many forms you have to sign. Of course they probably _should_ ask, especially when it’s something like this that’s not directly relevant to treatment.

  10. Society needs to address the whole mutilating men for diagnosis.
    I can not even start to ask what will happend if this were the normal procedure for other forms of cancer:

    I believe you have a liver cancer We will remove the leaver to find out.

    Not sure if this is the only case, but it’s choking.

    Love,
    Avida

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