After diagnosis, life expectancy still decreases with time, but less than that in the general population, slowly approaching that of cancer-free women. Life expectancy of men diagnosed with testicular cancer at age 30 years is estimated as The difference becomes 1. Conclusions: Life expectancy provides meaningful information on cancer patients, and can help in assessing when a cancer survivor can be considered as cured.
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For patients who receive a diagnosis when the tumor remains confined to a single testicle — and most patients do — the long-term effects of the disease tend to be minimal. Recurrence is rare, and the lifetime risk of a new cancer in the second testicle is 2 to 5 percent.
Most of those patients always retain a single working testicle, which in many cases can produce enough testosterone and sperm to keep them healthy and fertile for many years. The chances of long-term problems are far greater for patients who, at diagnosis, have metastatic cancer that has already spread beyond a single testicle and its immediate environs.
Such patients naturally face a higher risk of death from their initial cancer and a higher risk of recurrence, but specialists say the biggest risks stem less from the cancer than from the chemicals used to treat it. This powerful combination routinely produces all the harsh side effects associated with chemotherapy, but it can also lead to a litany of long-term side effects: infertility, low testosterone, lung scarring, hypertension, coronary artery disease, metabolic syndrome and secondary cancers.
These treatment-related conditions are relatively rare in patients who get chemotherapy for other tumor types. Most cancers tend to strike people who are beyond an age when they might worry either about fertility or problems that take decades to develop. The average age of a typical patient with cancer upon initial diagnosis is Long-term effects pose a much greater risk to the survivors of testicular cancer because they tend to be much younger.
Feldman, M. For most men, sperm production gradually recovers over months and years. Studies suggest that up to 30 percent of all testicular cancer patients who undergo chemotherapy never become fertile again, but as much as 80 percent of the patient population that was fertile initially and then underwent chemotherapy will recover their fertility within five years of treatment.
Although some men may recover their fertility sooner, their oncologists often advise them to delay conception for a least a year after treatment ends. The results of a few studies suggest a tiny increased risk of birth defects when men conceive very shortly after completing chemotherapy, Feldman said, but no evidence of problems beyond the one-year mark.
Insurance rarely covers the costs of fertility preservation or assisted reproduction.
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