What are the treatments for testicular cancer?

Testicular cancer is a male disease that seriously affects men's health and fertility. It is also a malignant cancer. Its early symptoms are not obvious and difficult to detect, which can easily cause patients to miss the best treatment period. So how should testicular cancer be treated? Today, I will introduce to you the treatment methods of testicular cancer.

Different types of testicular cancer require different treatments. The most common ones are as follows:

1. Testicular cancer caused by liver and kidney deficiency

Liver and kidney deficiency is common in the middle stage of testicular cancer. Most of them are Yin deficiency syndromes with heavy and swollen testicles, mostly without pain, but occasionally with acute testicular pain, hot flashes, weight loss, dizziness, tinnitus, sore waist and legs, red tongue with less coating, and thin pulse. It can be treated with Zhibai Dihuang Wan with modifications. In the prescription, cooked rehmannia is sweet and warm, nourishing, cornus officinalis is sour and astringent, and yam is astringent and beneficial to the spleen. Alisma orientalis and cooked rehmannia are used to vent kidney turbidity and prevent greasy, moutan bark and cornus officinalis are used to cool liver fire, and Poria cocos and yam are used to lightly penetrate spleen dampness. Anemarrhena and Phellodendron are used to clear the fire in the lower jiao, and to prevent endogenous toxic fire. In addition, tangerine seed, litchi seed, and fennel are added to break up accumulation, promote qi, dispel cold and relieve pain, clear the lower jiao, and strengthen the liver and kidney.

2. Testicular cancer due to liver depression and dampness stagnation

Patients with testicular cancer of liver depression and dampness stagnation type often have poor emotions or irritable temperament, testicular swelling and pain, flank pain, irritability and insomnia, breast pain and development, red tongue with thin coating, and stringy and slippery pulse. For patients with testicular cancer of liver depression and dampness stagnation type, Longdan Xiegan Decoction can be used for treatment to clear and purge the real fire of the liver and gallbladder, remove the damp heat of the liver and gallbladder, and expel the damp heat and fire poison, so that the poison that circulates around the yin of the liver meridian cannot be generated. The recipe uses bitter and cold Longdancao, which specifically enters the liver and gallbladder, to clear and purge the real fire and remove damp heat; Huangqin clears heat and dries dampness, and Gardenia is bitter and cold to descend and purge, and purge the real fire of the three burners, promote diuresis and remove dampness; Zexie, Tongcao, and Plantago clear heat and dampness, so that the evil poison can be discharged with urine; Bupleurum, Angelica, and Rehmannia soothe the liver and nourish blood, nourish yin and produce body fluid.

3. Heat-toxic dampness-agglomeration type testicular cancer

Congenital cryptorchidism, or previous exogenous fever, measles, mumps, etc., the symptoms are gradual swelling of the testicles, hard as stone, and heavy; the systemic symptoms are not obvious, yellow urine, dry stool, dry mouth, thirst, red tongue, yellow fur, slippery or stringy pulse. Bazheng San can be used for treatment to clear away heat and dampness, reduce fire and detoxify.