General Chat

I have just watched an item on This Morning about testicular cancer and the need for regular checks by the men in your lives.

Please educate your menfolk, and especially teenage boys, on the dangers of this cancer. It is very treatable if caught early, and often needs no chemo or radiotherapy.

I know I have brought this subject up before, but it is worth revisiting if it saves just one life. Be aware, if it is ignored it will be a death sentence.

Elisabeth

It definitly needs to be talked about , most men bury their heads in the sand, same with prostate cancer, my oh had this killer disease, but was aware of it it was treated and I feel sure his life was saved...the younger men just dont believe it could happen to them , old mans diseaese... rubbish.....thanks for reminding everyone Elizabeth....


Jean x

Nudge for Elisabeth M's post

Thank you
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Thanks Jean, Sandie, Karen and my (almost) namesake Elizabeth.

This is an item close to my heart, and I bring the subject up every once in a while, when it is in the public eye.

Caught early enough, testicular cancer can be cured. If left it can and probably will kill.

Elisabeth
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My husband was diagnosed with testicular cancer in 1984. If it had been up to him I don't think he would even have gone to the doctors - but I insisted. The doctor thought it was serious and made an appointment for him to see a consultant. We had to wait a very long 3 weeks (I don't think you wait that long these days).

The consultant had him in hospital the next day for an operation which was all we thought he needed but after one of the regular blood tests, the markers in his blood had gone up so he had to have a course of chemotherapy which was much more in the experimental stage in those days. However he got through it all with a very positive attitude. He was only 37 and we had two young boys so had everything to live for. He's now 62, still plays rugby, rides his push bike 8 miles to work and back three days a week (the other two days he trains with the rugby team) and is fitter than ever.

So I agree with you all. Make sure the men in your life don't ignore the signs. In 1985 the survival rate was 50/50. These days if it's caught early it's very nearly 100% curable.

Kath. x

I finally managed to persuade o.h. to arrange to be checked out and the appointment details came while we were away, he has to go twenty miles to have the checks done! Can't see him bothering, why do these things have to be miles away, we have a state of the art hospital on the outskirts of Norwich yet they don't do these checks and when I was thought to have chronic fatigue syndrome, I too had to go to the hospital twenty miles away to the c.f.s/m.e. place there as there isn't one here!

Lizx

I suspect the answer is that you have to go to the hospital where the specialist in the specific condition is located (and the equipment)

In my days in nursing ( a long time ago !) the specialists visited the outpatient departments of the satelite hosptials-those days are long gone !!