Males born with undescended testis have and increased risk of developing testicular cancer later in life. The surgical procedure called orchiopexy, can be performed on a child as early as six months of age.
In the New England Journal of Medicine they state that surgery before the age of thirteen for the treatment of undesended testis reduces the risk of testicular cancer compared with having surgery later in life.
The results of a study done by researchers in Sweden concluded that among those who underwent orchiopexy before the age of thirteen had an increased risk of testicular cancer that was slightly more than twofold of the general male population. Those who waited to get the surgery after thirteen years of age had a fivefold risk of developing the disease.
