Essay On Testicular Cancer

Testicular cancer is a disease that causes malignant cells to form in the tissues of one or both testicles. It is mostly common in twenty to thirty five year old men. It has two main types seminomas and nonseminomas. These two types grows and spread differently and are treated differently. Nonseminomas tend to grow and spread more quickly than seminomas. Seminomas are more sensitive to radiation. A testicular tumor that contains both seminoma and nonseminoma cells is treated as a nonseminoma.

Its cause is still not known but some risks are undescended testicls, congenital abnormalities, and history of testicular cancer and being white. Testicular cancer is mostly detected by the person discovering a lump or swelling in a testicle. Other ways of detecting testicular cancer is testicular pain or discomfort, testicular enlargement, aches in the abdomen, back, or groin, or a fluid collection in the scrotum. …show more content…
It could be done by surgery, Radiation therapy, Chemotherapy, Surveillance, and High-dose chemotherapy with stem cell transplant. Surgery to remove the testicle and some of the lymph nodes may be done at diagnosis and staging. Radiation therapy is a cancer treatment that uses high-energy x-rays or other types of radiation to kill cancer cells or keep them from growing. Chemotherapy is a cancer treatment that uses drugs to stop the growth of cancer cells, either by killing the cells or by stopping the cells from dividing. Surveillance is closely following a patient's condition without giving any treatment unless there are changes in test results. High-dose chemotherapy with stem cell transplant is a method of giving high doses of chemotherapy and replacing blood -forming cells destroyed by the cancer treatment. Certain treatments for testicular cancer can cause infertility that may be permanent. Patients who may wish to have children should consider sperm banking before having