Hey all.. I am new to the site and just found out yesterday that I have 100% Embryonal Carcinoma.
Here the story goes;
Dec 6th 2011- Felt a pain in my left testis which led me to feeling around later that night I felt 2 pretty noticable lumps down there.
Did the usual man thing which is wait a few days to see what happens.
Dec 13th I went into my Aid station and described them my symptoms they looked at it and the DR had me schedule and ultrasound.
Dec 20th Had ultrasound done by the radiology clinic...they said they would send their findings to my DR.
Dec 21st Went back to my DR where i started he obviously didn't know much about this type of illness, he first talked about doing a biopsy on the mass, but changed his mind and referred me to see Urology. He told me to call them later that day and make an appointment with them. I got a call about 30 min later from Urology stating that their DR reviewed my ultrasound and they wanted me in there ASAP. I got there and the DR explained to me what I all ready knew, which was that I had to lumps on my left guy and they always treat this type of thing as a worst case scenario and suspect cancer. I had an I/O about 8 hours later, I would have had it even sooner but to the fact that I ate some food on the way over there I had to wait. During the waiting time I got labs done and had a Chest X-ray and scheduled a CT scan for the following day. I had the surgery done everything was fine, I got to leave the hospital about an hour after operation and I was on my feet and moving the next day... after about a week I was near 100%
3 Jan 2012- I went in to get my results, from the Urologist DR, she informed me that I had Embryonal Carcinoma with Lymph Vascular Invasion, She told me that all my labs came back good and my ct scan and chest x-ray showed no lymp node invasions however she gave me the choice of having RPLND or 2 X BEP or Surveilance. Not really sure what to do. I am active duty Army so I think surveilance is not always going to be an option since I could end up going somewhere where it's not available
LDH 172
HCG TM <2
AFP 9.2
Today I will schedule a consult with Oncology to see what they have to say about the possible BEP but if anyone has any suggestions on what I should do just let me know, the RPLND doesn't sound like something that I would want to do. Also, there is not a whole lot of threads about Embryonal Carcinoma on here is this a rarer form of TC?
Thank you..
Here the story goes;
Dec 6th 2011- Felt a pain in my left testis which led me to feeling around later that night I felt 2 pretty noticable lumps down there.
Did the usual man thing which is wait a few days to see what happens.
Dec 13th I went into my Aid station and described them my symptoms they looked at it and the DR had me schedule and ultrasound.
Dec 20th Had ultrasound done by the radiology clinic...they said they would send their findings to my DR.
Dec 21st Went back to my DR where i started he obviously didn't know much about this type of illness, he first talked about doing a biopsy on the mass, but changed his mind and referred me to see Urology. He told me to call them later that day and make an appointment with them. I got a call about 30 min later from Urology stating that their DR reviewed my ultrasound and they wanted me in there ASAP. I got there and the DR explained to me what I all ready knew, which was that I had to lumps on my left guy and they always treat this type of thing as a worst case scenario and suspect cancer. I had an I/O about 8 hours later, I would have had it even sooner but to the fact that I ate some food on the way over there I had to wait. During the waiting time I got labs done and had a Chest X-ray and scheduled a CT scan for the following day. I had the surgery done everything was fine, I got to leave the hospital about an hour after operation and I was on my feet and moving the next day... after about a week I was near 100%
3 Jan 2012- I went in to get my results, from the Urologist DR, she informed me that I had Embryonal Carcinoma with Lymph Vascular Invasion, She told me that all my labs came back good and my ct scan and chest x-ray showed no lymp node invasions however she gave me the choice of having RPLND or 2 X BEP or Surveilance. Not really sure what to do. I am active duty Army so I think surveilance is not always going to be an option since I could end up going somewhere where it's not available
LDH 172
HCG TM <2
AFP 9.2
Today I will schedule a consult with Oncology to see what they have to say about the possible BEP but if anyone has any suggestions on what I should do just let me know, the RPLND doesn't sound like something that I would want to do. Also, there is not a whole lot of threads about Embryonal Carcinoma on here is this a rarer form of TC?
Thank you..
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