Testicle Tumor

Nsgarch has an outstanding idea. Here's a link to the Lance Armstrong Foundation.

My father had a lump on his testicle when he was in his late thirties. Turned out benign.

Good luck. Contact Lance. It's what he's all about these days (other than pissing off the French by threatening a return to win his eighth Tour).

Tvad, wouldn't that be his ninth tour, or have I lost count?

You've lost count. He's won seven.

Foxtrot, I understand you must be anxious as hell, and there's no getting around it. Many of these palpable lesions seen on ultrasound turn out to be benign, and even those that aren't are usually of a very, very treatable cell type (e.g., Lance A who had stage 4 metastatic disease), and only rarely (and usually in much older men) do these turn out to be resistant to treatment.

The other thing is urologists are very conservative, and they prefer taking out lesions that even look benign on US, mostly because you only need one to make hormones, and you can never be 100% certain something isn't malignant until the pathologists looks at it under the scope.

Anyway, get your rest, try to take it easy, and wait for results before getting too worked up - knowing the odds do favor you, both in terms of it being totally benign or a very treatable malignancy. Dr. Art

My kickboxing instructor lost one of his testicles to cancer in 1985 when he was 36. He went through hellacious chemo and radiation but fully recovered and has been practicing and teaching mixed martial arts ever since. Now has 5th dan in Kempo karate, 4 dan in Tae Kwon Do, 3 dan in Issinryu karate, and is quite skilled in submission grappling. About 5 years ago I watched him beat to a pulp the number two ranked Tae Kown Do tournament fighter in the country. His wife had breast cancer 4 years ago and lost a breast; she is doing great.

My cousin had testicular cancer in 1970 when he was 19 and lost one. The cancer came back in 1991 and this time he wasn't able to beat it. But up until then he was also great and worked construction.

My sister in law is recovering from a serious cancer with surgery removing a tumor 1 1/2 times the size of a grapefruit, nearly a quart of cancerous fluid, 29 biopsies, and a full hysterectomy. She's doing superbly and just had her third CAT scan since surgery (18 months ago); no sign of any problems. She and her doctors say the advances in cancer treatment has improved amazingly in the last 10 years.

I think the word cancer still scares us to death but we are beating it back in so many ways.