Outlook

After treatment for testicular cancer, most men enjoy a full, cancer-free life. Your ability to have an erection and orgasm will not change from before surgery. Men who wish to father children in the future are strongly urged to take advantage of sperm banking in case their fertility is impaired. Orchiectomy alone does not affect fertility, but chemotherapy, radiation therapy, and RPLND all may affect fertility in different ways.

Survival rates depend on the stage and type of testicular cancer.

• Stage I seminoma has a 99% cure rate.
  
  
• Stage I nonseminoma has greater than a 97% cure rate.
  
  
• Stage IIA seminoma has a 95% cure rate.
  
  
• Stage IIB seminoma has an 80% cure rate.
  
  
• Stage IIA nonseminoma has a 98% cure rate.
  
  
• Stage IIB nonseminoma has a 95% cure rate.
  
  
• Stage III seminoma has greater than a 80% cure rate.
  
  
• Stage III nonseminoma has greater than a 80% cure rate.