Testicular Cancer

Testicular cancer, effects a part of the male reproductive system known as the testis. Testicular cancer can be caused by any type of cell found in the testes, but more than 95% of all cancers of the testes are from germ cells. (Germ cells produce sperm; they are not pathogenic but rather the name developed from the term “germination”).
Germ cell tumors are classified as either:
a) Seminomas are slow-growing, immature germ cells. Seminomas, when found, tend to be only in the testicles (that is, to be localized), simply because they spread relatively slowly.
b) Nonseminomas, on the other hand, are more mature germ cells which spread more quickly. (Nonseminomas are classified as one of three or four subtypes; their rate of spread varies somewhat but they are treated similarly.)
A case of testicular cancer is categorized as being in one of three stages (which have subclassifications).
1) Stage one is where […]

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