Georgia newlywed talks about the cancer symptoms he almost overlooked
ATLANTA - Charles Farmer of Cherokee County, Georgia, was twenty-something and newly married, when he started feeling like something was off.He loves dancing, but started feeling pain, sometimes it was in his groin, sometimes it was all over, sometimes he had a stranger tenderness in his breasts.At first, Farmer did what a lot of young guys would probably do: nothing."I felt like it was something that would go away, or I thought maybe I pulled a muscle or something," Farmer remembers. "And I'd felt that pain down there before.
So, I felt it would just run its course."Charles Farmer on the day of his testicular cancer surgery. Farmer did not realize it then, but two of the symptoms he was experiencing, the breast tenderness and pain and infertility can both be signs of testicular cancer.By the time he felt a mass in one of his testicles, and went in to get it checked, he says, and his wife been trying to get pregnant for some time."But nothing was happening," Farmer says. "Really, I went in just for a checkup, not even thinking that was on the line, or even on the table.
I didn't even know what I was going in there for. I was going it for what I thought was a general checkup."Instead, after an ultrasound confirmed a suspicious mass in his testicle, Farmer came to see Dr.
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