Testicular cancer is a cancer that can be treated at a certain period of time. Testicular cancer is a growth or tumor that can appear painless. Testicular cancer is a pain that involves the testes and it may cause a swelling or a lump that man or boys can feel or touch by themselves or they can go for a checkup with a doctor. The cancer can be metastasis into either parts of the body by a flow of the blood stream or by lymphatic system. The testicular cancer has a rate of 95 percent and that's a very good rate for that type of cancer for men. Testicular cancer can harm young men at the age of 18 thru 40 years and this can even hurt a little boy, infant and an elderly can have testicular cancer and it doesn't matter …show more content…
The risk factor of an undescended- testicle is a condition of one or two testes have not been lowered in the scrotum and it stays at the abdomen or it may only be moved by part way down into the scrotum. If someone who has an undescended- testicle can have a risk factor of about 10 times the chance of testicular cancer. The risk of surgery of testicles have not lowered is very low and the surgery can fix the problem when the child is about one year’s old. The risk factor can be notice by family background of testicular cancer and it can be helpful for doctors. HIV infections can also have a risk factor, race and ethnicity and body size. The study have shown in some cases tall men can have testicular cancer but in some cases that theory will not always be true because the doctors aren't one hundred percent sure if this was the problem of testicular cancer.
What are the symptoms of testicular cancer?
The symptoms of testicular cancer can be a hard lump in the testes. The lump in the testes can be painless but the pain on the testicle can be detected by a backache, coughing, or by breathlessness. If any men and boys who have these symptoms have a very good chance that it could be testicular cancer. If anything was going wrong then men shall go to their doctors.
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“The most common type of radiation treatment is called external-beam radiation therapy”. The radiation therapy can affect the lymph nodes in the abdomen. “Radiation therapy is more effective for treating seminoma than non-seminoma". Radiation is the most preferred therapy than chemotherapy because of its functions and by not getting problems like fertility, lung damage, hair loss and many more than chemotherapy. This is the reason why men will probably pick radiation therapy but it all depends on the testicular cancer of it didn't metastasis. Radiation therapy is known for its best on “stage 1, IIA, and IIB in a pure seminoma". Radiation therapy can also treat the brain by metastasis from other seminoma and the non-seminoma. The testicular cancer rarely spreads to the brain when it