What are the side effects of treatment for testicular cancer?
The treatments used against cancer must be very powerful, and that is why some patients may have some unpleasant side effects. Many men worry that losing one testicle will affect their ability to have sexual intercourse or make them sterile. But a man with one healthy testicle can still have a normal erection and produce sperm. Therefore, an operation to remove just one testicle does not make a patient impotent and seldom interferes with fertility. . Men can also have an artificial testicle, called a prosthesis, placed in the scrotum. The implant has the weight and feel of a normal testicle. Note that finding a source for this implant in the USA is not impossible, but can be difficult. Check the TCRC implants page for more information on availability. Surgery to remove the lymph nodes does not change a man’s ability to have an erection or an orgasm, but the operation can cause infertility because it may interfere with the nerves involved in ejaculation. Severing these nerves causes the
