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Hormone levels in patients with elevated hCG (n\u2009=\u200941) were analyzed separately. To discriminate between general cancer effects and specific effects associated with TGCC, the same analyses were carried out in a group of 45 consecutive male patients with malignant lymphoma (group 2). Group 3 comprised 141 men employed in a Danish company who served as controls in the comparison of semen parameters. As a control group in hormone investigations, 193 men were selected randomly from the Danish National Personal Register to make up group 4. <\/jats:p><jats:p> RESULTS: We found significantly lower sperm concentration (median, 15\u2009\u00d7\u200910<jats:sup>6<\/jats:sup>\/mL; range, 0 to 128\u2009\u00d7\u200910<jats:sup>6<\/jats:sup>\/mL) and total sperm count (median, 29\u2009\u00d7\u200910<jats:sup>6<\/jats:sup>\/mL; range, 0 to 589\u2009\u00d7\u200910<jats:sup>6<\/jats:sup>) in patients with testicular cancer than in patients with malignant lymphomas (sperm concentration: median, 48\u2009\u00d7\u200910<jats:sup>6<\/jats:sup>\/mL; range, 0.04 to 250\u2009\u00d7\u200910<jats:sup>6<\/jats:sup>\/mL; sperm count: median, 146\u2009\u00d7\u200910<jats:sup>6<\/jats:sup>; range, 0.05 to 418\u2009\u00d7\u200910<jats:sup>6<\/jats:sup>) (P\u2009&lt;\u2009.001 and P\u2009&lt;\u2009.001) and healthy men (sperm concentration: median, 48\u2009\u00d7\u200910<jats:sup>6<\/jats:sup>\/mL; range, 0 to 402\u2009\u00d7\u200910<jats:sup>6<\/jats:sup>\/mL; sperm count: median, 162\u2009\u00d7\u200910<jats:sup>6<\/jats:sup>; range, 0 to 1253\u2009\u00d7\u200910<jats:sup>6<\/jats:sup>) (P\u2009&lt;\u2009.001 and P\u2009&lt;\u2009.001). FSH levels were increased in men with testicular cancer (median, 5.7 IU\/L; range, 2.0 to 27 IU\/L) compared with both men with malignant lymphomas (median, 3.3 IU\/L; range, 1.01 to 12.0 IU\/L) and healthy controls (median, 4.1 IU\/L; range, 1.04 to 21 IU\/L) (P\u2009=\u2009.001 and P\u2009=\u2009.007, respectively). Surprisingly, we found significantly lower LH in the group of men with TGCC (median, 3.6 IU\/L; range, 1.12 to 11.9 IU\/L) than in healthy men (median, 4.7 IU\/L; range, 1.3 to 11.9 IU\/L) (P\u2009=\u2009.01). We could not detect any differences between men with testicular cancer and men with malignant lymphomas and healthy men with regard to serum levels of testosterone, SHBG, and estradiol. Men with testicular cancer who had increased hCG levels had significantly lower LH and significantly higher testosterone and estradiol than those without detectable hCG levels. <\/jats:p><jats:p> CONCLUSION: Spermatogenesis is already impaired in men with testicular cancer before orchiectomy. Neither local suppression of spermatogenesis by tumor pressure nor a general cancer effect seems to fully explain this impairment. The most likely explanation is pre-existing impairment of spermatogenesis in the contralateral testis in men with testicular cancer. The question of whether also a pre-existing Leydig cell dysfunction is present in men with testicular cancer could not be answered in this study because the tumor seems to have a direct effect on the Leydig cells. Men with testicular cancer had low LH values as compared with controls. 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