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Dr Suks Minhas
London Andrology
Can testicular cancer affect male fertility?
Dr Suks Minhas explains that while testicular cancer has a very high successful treatment rate (up to 97%), some of the treatments (including chemotherapy) can destroy sperm. He recommends freezing sperm before the treatment plan begins.
Transcript
Testicular cancer can affect fertility and this is quite interesting in about 50% of men who have and present with testicular cancer have abnormal sperm counts. And in fact, about 10% in some studies actually don't have any sperm in ejaculation. So therefore, if you're diagnosed with testicular cancer, we normally advise actually you should freeze sperm before you do surgery on the testicle. In other words, before you remove the testicle in that instance. Very occasionally, you can actually do sperm retrieval from the testicle itself if you don't have any sperm or have too few sperm in the testicle at the same time as you remove the testicle for the cancer.
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