Testicular Cancer Care

Our surgical capabilities set us apart. Our urologic surgeons trained specifically in the management of this disease regularly cure people with testicular cancer, even when they were previously told that their cancer was inoperable elsewhere. At Mayo Clinic, we offer hope and make the inoperable operable.

Deep understanding of diagnosis and management. The best treatment plan is based on a thorough understanding of the issues unique to each person based on careful analysis of diagnostic testing. Our expert teams offer the best outcomes by collaborating to leverage the extensive experience and training of each team member.
Surgery for advanced disease. We perform surgeries not available elsewhere, treating patients with previously deemed inoperable tumors.
Safer surgery. Surgery typically offers the best chance for a cure. Our surgeons specialize in advanced techniques, ensuring fewer side effects, quicker recoveries, and better outcomes

Our team at Mayo Clinic offers you the best chance for a cure with the least long-term issues from treatment. As testicular cancer is highly treatable when managed by an experienced team, we prioritize minimally impactful treatments to support a normal lifespan and high quality of life. Your Mayo Clinic team includes global leaders in testicular cancer treatment, including urologic surgeons, medical oncologists, pathologists, radiation oncologists and other specialists as necessary.

We facilitate a smooth transition back home, coordinating the complexities of your care with your local doctors. Your Mayo Clinic team listens to what’s important to you and will help you navigate fertility. From sperm banking to prosthetics, everything you need is here at Mayo Clinic, under one roof.

Mayo Clinic is top-ranked in more specialties than any other hospital, according to U.S. News & World Report. We are a National Cancer Institute-designated comprehensive cancer center with three locations. This esteemed designation means we are driving the future of groundbreaking research, clinical trial access, and innovative therapies.

Personalizing Testicular Cancer Treatment and Optimizing an Individual’s Long-Term Care.

A person with testicular cancer has just been handed a very unexpected and frightening diagnosis. While it's uncommon, it is also an absolutely curable disease in the vast majority of patients. Testicular cancer commonly affects young men who, after treatment, may survive 40 or 50 years. And if they have a side effect from treatment that's going to follow them for all that time. At Mayo Clinic, our goal is number one, to give the very best possible chance of cure. And number two, to do that with the least possible burden of therapy, risks and discomfort for the patient. We have frequent meetings with our colleagues in medical oncology, urology, radiology, and other specialties to review complex testicular cancer cases and make sure that we can evaluate them on an individual basis. And come up with a unique treatment plan that's ideally suited for each individual patient.

Treatment may be as simple as removing the affected testicle and simple observation. For other patients, additional treatments in some cases, chemotherapy in some cases, radiotherapy and in some cases additional surgical procedures are necessary to accomplish that cure. When radiation therapy is recommended for these patients, proton beam therapy is an outstanding tool that allows us to very specifically target the cancer cells while minimizing radiation exposure to nearby normal tissues, and thus decreasing the risk of long term complications in these patients. In many cases after that initial conversation about the best approach for your testicular cancer, it would involve us working with your care team at home to assure that you can simply follow the regimen that we would recommend while you're at home.

Since the expectation is that most people will be cured, we need to think about long term impact of treatment, including things like fertility and body image. If a patient is going to have a consult and may wind up losing a testicle as part of their therapy, we like them to always bring up with their physicians issues around possible sperm banking, if they're interested, and things like, do I want a testicular prosthesis or not? Regarding body image issues. Here at Mayo Clinic, we really have all the tools available to treat testicular cancer in its various forms. Picking a center of excellence like Mayo Clinic is your best bet to help get the best outcomes possible.

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Personalizing Testicular Cancer Treatment and Optimizing an Individual’s Long-Term Care.

Mayo Clinic Comprehensive Cancer Center is designated by the National Cancer Institute as a comprehensive cancer center.

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