Testicular Cancer Spread. Treatment usually includes surgery to remove the affected testicle and the lymph nodes. This may be followed by radiotherapy chemotherapy or a combination of both.
Area between your lungs brain liver lungs lymph nodes space behind your stomach. If the cancer has spread to the brain surgery if there are only 1 or 2 tumors in the brain radiation therapy aimed at the brain or both may also be used. Should this happen the most common sites to be affected are the stomach the lungs the spine and the retroperitoneal region the area near the kidneys.
If not treated testicular cancer can spread via the lymphatic pathways.
Should this happen the most common sites to be affected are the stomach the lungs the spine and the retroperitoneal region the area near the kidneys. Stage 2 testicular cancer has spread to the nearby retroperitoneal lymph nodes but has not spread elsewhere. Although testicular cancer is less common it can spread to the lymph nodes in the pelvis. If cancer spreads to the lungs a person may experience shortness of breath or a cough.
