My son has a problem?

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he's 17 and he had a phyical for the army the other day and he was told that one of his testicles didn't drop and that he needs to go and see a specialist because i can cause cancer. I was just wondering what can they do to correct this problem? When he was a baby the doctors were concerned about this problem but when he was around 2 years they told me it had dropped. I never thought that he may still be having that problem.I'm just wondering how serious this is and how they fix it. Please just serious answer, thank you

Answers:
If you are an adult with an undescended testicle, moving the testicle to the scrotum probably won't improve your ability to make sperm. So, in adult men an undescended testicle is usually just removed. If you are an older man with an undescended testicle, your doctor can help you decide what to do.

If a boy has had undescended testicles, that is the testicles did not drop on their own, there is a slightly higher risk of infertility as an adult. This is a much greater problem if both testicles have not dropped as opposed to only one. Undescended testicles rarely cause pain.

Here are the sites where I got this information. They contain more information then I listed.

By the way, I have a nephew who had this as a teenager and he is now a happy dad.

This can be fixed surgically

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