FRISCO -- Gavin Escobar was an 18-year-old freshman at San Diego State when he started feeling pain in his groin during football practice. Team doctors advised him to get checked for sexually transmitted diseases.
Tests showed he did not have an STD, so Escobar searched the internet for symptoms of testicular cancer. He had many of them, which led to his mother setting up an appointment with a UCLA doctor.
A day after meeting with the doctor, Escobar had surgery to remove a tumor. A couple of months later, he had lymph nodes removed from his stomach.