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My husband had testicular cancer 2 years ago. He's just gone for his (hopefully) last CT scan. How likely is it that he could have secondaries now, and where might secondaries show up? He originally had a seminoma, with secondary nodes by his kidneys.
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They probably won’t find anything. I hope so.
Seminomas are the most common type of testicular cancer and usually metastasize in an orderly fashion and are most likely to metastasize to the bone. Has he had a bone scan or a PET scan? If not, I would ask for one.
Your husband would have had a stage B1-B3 cancer which has a 5 year survival rate of 80-90%. At any stage testicular cancer is highly treatable and curable. He should be fine. Best to both of you.
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Bronners- By “secondary” I wonder if you mean spread or “metastases” of his testicular cancer to other places in his body. Your information states he has had spread to lymph nodes near his kidney (retroperitoneal area). Other places where seminoma has been known to spread include bone and lung, and less often to the brain. The best news is that regardless of the stage or spread of his seminoma there’s now a 90 percent cure rate. I pray he’s in that 90% of men cured of their seminomas.
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Hopefully there won't be any more spread (metastasis) or recurrence. Unfortunately secondary tumors, if they occur, can happen anywhere.
Check out http://www.cancerdoubts.com There's an explanation of cancer metastasis and what affects cancer prognosis.
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