I thank the Lord I'm done with treatments and have such a good prognosis. I'd like to put all this behind me and forget it, but I still have years of follow-up checks and bills to pay, so I won't ever be able to forget. Besides that, I need to warn others. Most people I've talked to have never heard that TC exists unless someone they know had it. The patient usually receives radiation therapy as an outpatient.
Seminomas are highly sensitive to radiation.
Following surgery, men with seminomas generally have radition therapy to their abdominal lymph nodes. Nonseminomas are somewhat less sensitive to radiation. Patients with this type of cancer usually have other types of treatment, like chemotherapy . Side Effects of Radiation Treatment Radiation therapy affects both normal and cancerous cells, but normal cells are able to recover. Having treatments 5 days a week for several weeks spreads out the total dose of radiation and gives the patient weekend rest breaks.