Courtney Poquette's List: Lance-Cancer

• Because testicular cancer has a very high cure rate and with a cure rate of  almost 100% for the very early stages of this disease, it's very important to  detect and treat the cancer as early as possible. 

• between the ages of 15 and 35 years
• The American Cancer Society estimates that there will be approximately 8,000 new  cases of cancer of the testicles

  • vs. the estimate from 1999...

• Treatments may also cause infertility. If  you may want children later on, you should consider sperm banking before  treatment.

• The testicles have several types of cells, each of which may develop into one or  more types of cancer. It is important to distinguish these types of cancers from  one another because they differ in the ways they are treated and in their  prognosis (the course of the disease and the outlook for survival).
• More than 90% of cancers of the testicle develop in special cells known as germ  cells.
• seminomas and nonseminomas.

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