How to Treat Testicular Cancer

Video Transcript

"Hello. In this clip, we're going to talk about your treatment options, what your doctor would advise you depending on the stages of your testicular cancer stage. Now, what are some of the treatment options out there? The first thing you need to know, is to be important, is to do a monthly screening for testicular cancer of any kind of testicular problem by doing a TSE, which is a testicular self-examination. And that's something that you can learn to do and you can do it regularly in the privacy of your home. And you should do it on a monthly basis because that is the number one way to prevent getting testicular cancer or any other kind of testicular problems. And if you do, if you do this TSE on a monthly basis, you can detect at an early stage of any signs of cancer or testicular problems. And then you can go immediately to see your doctor. So that's important. That's actually the very first thing that you can do to prevent yourself from getting testicular cancer or any kind of testicular problems. The next thing to do if you suspect that you have a lump or something irregular that you don't feel comfortable in one of your testicles when you've done this TSE on a monthly basis, then you'll go to the doctor and he will say, "We want to decide, we want to diagnose if this is something that could be a problem like testicular cancer, we'll do a biopsy. A testicular biopsy." And I'll talk about that in more detail in one of the next clips. Another thing is that when they've come back and they say, "Okay, this could possibly be a sign of testicular cancer, or testicular problem," then the doctor will then order another battery of tests. And one in the next stage will be a CT scan or an ultrasound of your testicles. We'll have images of those so you can actually see what these ultrasound and CT scan images of testicular cancer look like. And then the last thing. If you're actually diagnosed with testicular cancer, obviously the one thing they want to do is to remove the cancerous tumor and they'll do surgery, or an orchiectomy. And it depends on the stage of your tumor, the size of your tumor and the doctor will decide, or the surgeon will decide, if you're going to have a total orchiectomy, which is a removal of the whole testicle, or part of it. But I think most of the time now, they recommend removing the whole testicle just to decrease your risk of recurrence. So these are some of the treatment options that you can think about and research about and go and talk to your doctor about when you have been diagnosed with, or you think that you have testicular cancer."