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Posted 2013-03-29T05:27:18Z

Testicular Cancer Statistics

The American Cancer Society's estimates for testicular cancer in the United States for 2013 are:

  • About 7,920 new cases of testicular cancer will be diagnosed.About 370 men will die of testicular cancer.
  • The rate of testicular cancer has been increasing in the United States and many other countries. The increase is mostly in seminomas. Experts have not been able to find reasons for this increase. Lately, the rate of increase has slowed.
  • Testicular cancer is not common; a man's lifetime chance of developing testicular cancer is about 1 in 270. Because treatment is so successful, the risk of dying from this cancer is very low: about 1 in 5,000.
  • From 2005-2009, the median age at diagnosis for cancer of the testis was 33 years of age. Approximately 6.2% were diagnosed under age 20; 47.9% between 20 and 34; 25.7% between 35 and 44; 13.9% between 45 and 54; 4.3% between 55 and 64; 1.2% between 65 and 74; 0.6% between 75 and 84; and 0.2% 85+ years of age. It is the most common cancer in males aged 20–39 years, the period of peak incidence, and is rarely seen before the age of 15 years.

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Posted 2013-03-27T01:14:49Z

Chad's Hospital Stay

Chad's treatment had been going pretty smothly since starting at the end of February. However, last Monday after getting home from treatment Chad began getting chills and spiked a fever. After calling his doctor we were advised to go to the emergency room. After spending a couple of hours in the emergency room Chad was admitted to the hospital.[...]

Posted 2013-03-27T00:15:57Z

Chad's Journey ~ As Written By His Wife, Amber

The morning of December 17, 2012, 2 days before Chad's 26th birthday, our lives as we knew them changed forever. When my cell phone rang at 7:30am I knew something wasn't right. It was then that I noticed 12 missed phone calls on my phone screen; my heart sank. I answered the phone and tried to prepare myself for what I was about to hear. On the other end of the phone was a nurse from the Meridian Park Emergency Department. She said that my husband was there, but he was okay and that he wanted to talk to me. My first thought was that he had been involved in a car accident on his way home from working the graveyard shift. My husband got on the phone and I could tell he had been crying. He then said three words that I was not prepared at all to hear - I have cancer. I felt like a ton of bricks hit me. There was no way that MY husband could have cancer. After all, he was only 25. Impossible.[...]