I have a lot of questions regarding this type of cancer. I hope I am asking things that are not to intrusive an appropriate. If not, please feel free to let...
... not ... What about a stupid attempt to manipulate a sweet naive girl INTO a relationship? Sounds weird, I know. Here are the claims since she met him. (she...
Hey, I am Tony. If this guy left it too long there could be trouble for other parts of the body. Even death. If she can see the bump because it is soooo big,...
... Basically no, though there are complicated cases where this may deserve a more complicated answer. ... Chemo could be given before or after or not at all....
... Nope. I have always maintained that the clever cancer survivor could use this to his advantage in dating situations. Many men are afraid of what women will...
Thank you for your candor. I am a medically minded individual, and work as a health care provider, but have no contact/experience with oncology or urology....
Hello. My name is Troy and I found a hard, painless lump on my right testical two weeks ago. Though I was immediately concerned, I tried to tell myself that I...
Hi troy. Well that sounds just like a photo-copy of my story. Why is it mostly the right testicle...??? Any way. The worst is over. The rest is prevention and...
I had a similar situation. 27 y.o., 2 lumps in my testicle, and put on antibiotics that did absolutely nothing. Referred to a urologist who was cold and...
Your story sounds very similiar to my husbands..except the doctors were wonderful and very much 'on top of things'with my husband. Easter morning 2002 my...
That's crazy that the doctor was shocked about banking sperm. In addition to having TC myself, I had a close friend who was also diagnosed. Luckily, the...
Testicles aren't emabrassing and neither is Cancer. We are conditioned into not talking about our balls....and that is the problem....that's why so many Guys...
Hi, now don't get turned off because I am female. My boyfriend is a TC survivor and now just found another problem on his surviving testicle. I need this...
Yes, this is my second inspection. In the hot weather, there was pain and discomfort with the undershorts. I think because of all that has happened the body...
Hi! I have a question about the quemotherapy cycles. Is there any differences of efficiency between been hospitalized to recieve quemo (five days at month) and...
Hi, I am a Lebanese guy, 32 years old and living in Lebanon. I have been diagnosed with T.C. Non-seminoma and have already removed my right testicule about 3.5...
Hello Richard. I have to get Radiation done. My markers and CT test all look good, but I'm getting the radiation for seminoma. It sounds like you are on top of...
Hello. The seminoma appears to be out: CT looks good, blood looks good. Now I get a routine radiation treatment in case any small stuff is around and a lot of...
If the knife did the job soon enough, radiation is all you need. Please notice, First the knife, then the radiation. And if you can't cut it out, then chemo is...
They don't use radiation for non-seminoma, only surgery and chemo. Suzanne Simon, Managing Broker Long & Foster 4600 Lee Hwy. Arlington, VA 22207 703/284-9341 ...
http://www.onelook.com/?w=nonseminoma&ls=b Nonseminoma: A classification of testicular cancers that arise in specialized sex cells called germ cells....
WAIT!! Are you saying that your AFP was 24 and now it is just 5 and they want to do chemotherapy? WHY? If your AFP is 5.3, then it is normal. Why do anything...
This website is the best I have found so far. It gives you all the info from orchiectomy to staging and alternate treatments. This website also has real life...
Here's another oddity--nonseminomas include seminomas. Sort of... That is to say, if you have multiple cell types in the pathology, and one of those types is...
There is a lot of uncertainty involved in the initial diagnosis by the cancer survivor and the healthcare provider. There are multiple parameters. No one...
For men, they do not radiate the testicles( try not too, if possible). This would harm them. The have other functions as well. There make hormones, and to...
Dear Doug, Hi, thanks for your reply to my posting, I realise there has been a misunderstanding. My AFP used to be 5.3 after the operation which took place...
Dear Melissa, Thanks for the pointer, but I already had viewed the website you are talking about and it really is very good, and my oncologist pointed another...
Dear All, Thanks for all the emails you have sent and the info you have pointed out. The first session of chemo went very good as per my oncologist that he...