Making A Choice
Alright I don’t like any of those three options. Who would. Making a decision is stressful especially when there is no good option available.
After long dicsussions with my girlfriend, my family and my doctors, I came to the conclusion that chemo was the least worst option for my case.
My Beta HCG Values have dropped from a 14 to a 2 after 4 weeks which is a great sign that things are going better. There is a chance that the values could drop to zero but it might not which would mean that some micro cancer cells could be still floating around my lymph system.
Carboplatin / Paraplatin
So I will receive two dosis of about 700mg Carboplatin (Paraplatin for IV). And a bunch of antinausea medicine. The second dosis will follow three weeks after the first one.
There is a slight chance of infertility caused by the Chemotherapy. For this reason I will need to have my sperms checked to see if there’s enough skilled swimmers in there. That should be interesting 
Read Article on urotoday regarding the new carboplatin option for seminoma stage I patients.
Tags: carboplatin, paraplatin, seminoma, stage I, traeatment options
