Seminoma stage 2 AUC-10 fertility

Hi Emma—really sorry to hear you're going through this! My husband is currently set to start chemo in the next few weeks and I know it can be a pretty lonely/difficult time for a partner. Unfortunately, as I'm still in the thick of it too, I can't offer much advice as to the impacts of carboplatin on fertility, but I have been told that it's a gentler form of chemo. With that in mind, for fertility to return the majority of the time for those who had 3-4 cycles of BEP chemo, it looks pretty positive for your situation too. That being said, I hope someone more qualified than myself gets back to you here! Have you spoken to your chemo/cancer nurse about any of it? I assume your partner has visited the fertility centre?

Hi lavender,

sorry to hear you are going through this to, it’s such a whirlwind experience. I really hope and wish that your husband copes well with the treatment and wish him a good recovery. 

thank you for your response. It’s been a very difficult month or so. And it has been very lonely, being young(ish) and not have any close friends of family having gone through something like this at the age my boyfriend is. 

I am hoping given fertility can return after BEP that I would hope there is still a possible work carboplatin- my only concern is that they are treating it with a higher dose than if it were stage 1. He is still hoping that his fertility will return as he did freeze a sample and was told he has a good sperm count, and they are really healthy and supposedly this reduces risk of permanent infertility after treatment. We are also so grateful he is being offered carboplatin aswell as it’s supposedly has less long term and short term side effects. 

We have spoken to the nurses/oncologist and they all say they can really give an answer-  but they haven’t said it definitely make him infertile. 

As mentioned He did freeze a sample of his sperm and he go a good sample with healthy/active sperm. So we do have this back up, however we would love to conceive naturally. So I guess we just have to try and focus on getting him through this and trying to stay hopeful.

Thanks again 

Emme

Ah, it sounds like we're in very similar boats! A lot of my friends are currently having kids and I'm here looking up post-chemo fertility statistics—not the ideal situation for your 20s! Really great to hear he's given a good, healthy sample—that's perfect insurance if anything does go awry, so take heart in that. And like you said, it's good to focus on crossing this bridge before moving onto the next (as difficult as that is to do!) If you ever want to have a chat on here, don't be afraid to reach out :) Best of luck.

I’ve been exactly the same, Googling endlessly and reading countless amount of research papers and comparing them all. I know it probably doesn’t help my anxiety long term  but  it’s hard to focus on anything other than this and be ‘normal’.

Same  to you to, anytime you want to talk just send me a message.  

Boyfriend is starting first cycle Monday, feeling nervous but pleased to be getting it underway. 

Fingers crossed it goes ok.

Emme xxx