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Staging of Testicular Cancer
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Once Testicular Cancer has been diagnosed, your doctor will order a number of tests to help determine the stage of the disease (to see if the cancer has spread to other areas).
CT Scan: this is a study which takes a number of detailed images of the chest, abdomen and pelvis to see if the lymph nodes appear abnormal, indicating possible spread of testicular cancer into these areas.
Repeat Tumor Markers: If these markers (AFP and β-HCG) are elevated prior to orchiectomy, your physician will follow these markers after orchiectomy to ensure they have normalized in the blood appropriately. If they do not normalize within a certain period after orchiectomy, this may indicate persistent cancer within the body.
After these tests are performed, your physician will be able to stage the disease.
Stage 1: Cancer only within the testis
Stage 2: Cancer found within the abdominal lymph nodes
Stage 3: Cancer has spread elsewhere within the body (for example, the chest, bones, brain)
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