This may be due in part to the fact that many doctors are inexperianed in dealing with the disease. During the delay, you shoulg consider taking essiac right away. If your doctor does tests and thinks you have cancer, there's no way to know for sure except by removing the testicle and doing a biopsy. Sometimes surgery is done within hours of the examination. Sometimes surgery is followed by radiation or chemotherapy.
Chemotherapy can permanently destroy a patient's ability to produce sperm.
If you want to have children in the future, sprem banking is suggested for men taking chemotherapy before the chemo treatments begin.