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Testicular CancerTesticular cancer is a cancer occurring in the testicles of men.
This cancer is most common between men aged 15 to 40 years of age. This cancer however, is not as scary as other cancers since, it has a high cure rate.
More than 90% of the people suffering from this cancer are cured completely off the cancer.
Testicular self-examination is the key to early detection of the testicular cancer.
Testicular cancer symptoms show certain pea shaped lumps in scrotum. This self examination should be done aftr hot water shower, when the scrotum is lose in shape.
Other symptoms of the testicular cancer include, collection of fluid in scrotum, hardening of scrotum or a lump in one of the testis, significant increase or decrease in the size of the testis, blood in semen, pain in lower abdomen area, etc.
Testicular cancer is caused by germ cells which produce sperms in more than 95% of the cases, these tumors are seminomas or nonseminomas depending on their types. Seminomas are slow in growth and often localized therefore, removing them is quite easy, however nonseminomas are fast growing and can metastasize faster than the seminomas.
Both the types of testicular cancers are treated similarly.
In certain advanced cases, surgery is the best way of removal of the testicular cancer, this happens in case the body does not respond to the chemotherapy or radiation therapy.
Sometimes, radiation therapy is used in the second stage of the cancer, chemotherapy can be used together with another therapy or after surgery to ensure that there are no more possibilities of the cancer remaining inside the body.
After removal of one testicle, generally men can live normal lives and one testicle can see to it that they maintain fertility, however, it would be better that men conduct fertility tests before they go in for surgery, this will help them decide and complete sperm banking for all those young men who wish to have a family started. In some cases fertility might be affected due to chemotherapy and radiation therapy.
It is important that though to keep cancer under constant surveillance so that any new developments can be taken into consideration immediately and the treatment can be started as soon as possible for removal of this cancer.
However, incidence of this cancer occurring again after removal and therapies is very less, less than 5% of the men will have cancerous growth again.
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