Dear Testicular Cancer » traeatment options http://testicularcancerinfo.net Surviving TC Mon, 25 May 2009 01:38:11 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 en hourly 1 Making A Choice http://testicularcancerinfo.net/archives/76 http://testicularcancerinfo.net/archives/76#comments Sat, 29 Apr 2006 01:03:31 +0000 admin http://testicularcancerinfo.net/?p=76 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

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.

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