What are the key statistics about testicular cancer?
The American Cancer Society estimates that in the year 2004 about 8,980 new cases of testicular cancer will be diagnosed in the U.S. An estimated 360 men will die of testicular cancer in the year 2004. Testicular cancer is one of the most curable forms of the disease. Studies show that the cure rate exceeds 90% in all stages combined. The 5-year survival rate for stage 1 and stage 11 testicle cancer is more than 95%. The 5-year survival rate for stage 111 disease, in which cancer has spread beyond local lymph nodes, is 75%. The 5-year survival rate refers to the percent of patients who live at least 5 years after their cancer is diagnosed. Many of these patients live much longer than 5 years after diagnosis, and 5-year rates are used to produce a standard way of discussing prognosis. Five-year relative survival rates exclude from the the calculations patients dying of other diseases, and are considered to be a more accurate way to describe the prognosis for patients which a particular
