Interview 33

Age at Interview: 21

Sex: Male

Age at Diagnosis: 15

Background: Student nurse; single, no children.

Brief outline:Testicular cancer (teratoma) and secondary tumours diagnosed in 1994. Orchidectomy and 5 cycles of chemotherapy. In February 1995 major surgery to remove a secondary tumour in the abdomen, near to the spine.

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So as my consultant put it, it was a tumour the size of an orange in my back, which was causing this pain my back. So it was another shock at that point, to think right I've had all this done and I knew there was a possibility that I'd have to have more treatment, but to find out that I had another large tumour in my body as well was a bit daunting to say the least. So the week, the same week that I got back from holiday I was taken into the hospital that I had my treatment, and met the consultant that treated me, and he explained exactly what was going to happen, how the treatment worked, his success rates which were very, very good, it was a very high success rate for treating and curing this cancer and really, really made me feel very at ease. And I was obviously still very, very scared but he did make me feel a lot better about it than I would have if I'd just been told, he did explain very, very well what was going to happen.