TAP dancing has been found to increase the chances of testicular cancer in those who are born with testes. The study conducted at Fordham Universities Oncologist department conducted several tests and linked several case studies, “we didn’t want to rule out that tap dancing causes cancer of the testes but our research speaks for itself”, said lead researcher Donald Barton who is lead Oncologist at Fordham. The study was focused on any activities those who got testicular cancer were engaged in and found that a great number of those that tap danced were diagnosed. “This was no coincidence” Professor Barton says, “once we discovered that link we pursued answers… why would tap dancing correlate with testicular cancer. We discovered that the dancing itself sent vibrations throughout the body and with those vibrations the testes would hit one another which created ‘micro fissures’, tiny fissures that would take time to heal but after multiple instances of healing and the testes experiencing more stress, sooner or later cancer cells develop”.
Although it hasn’t necessarily been proven the research as Barton puts it does speak for itself. “I won’t stop you enjoying your hobby.. but if you have testes then perhaps best course of action would be to put an ice pack on them after every tap dancing session”.
