This disease is highly curable , especially if it is discovered in the early stage, so specialists recommend a systematic palpation of the testis - better done after a hot shower because this relaxes the scrotum and you can feel any lump or unusual formation easier. Besides the obvious symptom of detecting an abnormal excrescence on one of the testicles, there may be other signs that can suggest testicle cancer: the scrotum and testis have a sudden change in sensitivity and the area either becomes painful or on the contrary you can't feel anything there, you lose the sexual appetite out of a sudden, experience a burning sensation in the area after you perform some kind of physical activity, your scrotum seems filled with a lot of liquid, you feel a sore in the lower abdomen and the lombar area , you get tired easily or may have blood in the semen.
The exact diagnosis is established by doctors after having an ultrasound and also other tests and the patient is recommended to follow a specific treatment . Usually the cancer cells that appear as lumps on the surface of the testis are removed surgically and usually this is a success and the risk of having a recurrence of the disease is also limited by the radiotherapy and chemotherapy that are used in addition to surgery in order to make sure that all cancer cells are distroyed or removed from the body.
The surgical removal of the infected testicle is called orchiectomy and they usually only remove one testicle, so this way the patient will be able to have children and a normal life. There are very few cases when the remaining testicle gets infected, too. When the cancer is spread to the lymph nodes surrounding the testis and the genital area, these nodes are also surgically removed to avoid any risk. The testicle cancer can be fatal only if it is discovered very late and it has already spread to liver and lungs but even in these cases, if all the metastases are removed, the patient still has a good chance of survival.