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Consultant urologist Dr George Lee Eng Geap, or a.k.a Dr G, tells his readers the inspirational story about how US cycling legend Lance Armstrong overcame testicular cancer and reinvented himself.  Read more at https://tinyurl.com/yyupsuhh  WATCH MORE: https://thestartv.com/c/news SUBSCRIBE: https://cutt.ly/TheStar LIKE: https://fb.com/TheStarOnline

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00:00Hello there, welcome to the final episodes of Putting Dr. G on the Spot in the month of Movember

00:05November, where we have focused a whole month on the treatment and also diagnosis of testicular

00:12cancer. Starting from mycolithiasis, we talked about radical orchidectomy, putting in prosthesis,

00:18and today we're going to use an example of a very famous personality who suffered from testicular

00:23cancer and overcome this cancer and adversity and overturned it to become an inspiration.

00:30This is none other than Lance Armstrong.

00:40Lance Armstrong, actually in 1996 at the age of 25, was discovered to have testicular cancer.

00:46Unfortunately, this was a bit too late for him because when he actually first discovered he's

00:51got testicular cancer, despite actually having it for a few months, he coughed out blood and also had

00:58headache and what turned out was that he had metastasis to the brain and also to his lungs.

01:04For most people, we would think that this has a very, very poor prognosis of 40% survival.

01:11So he was rushed to hospital and underwent a radical orchidectomy. The removal of testicle is crucial

01:17because that will determine whether this is seminoma or non-seminomatous germ cell tumour.

01:23And from that point onwards, he also underwent another operation, which is removal of the lymph

01:28nodes in his paraiotic glands, and that's called paraiotic lymph node dissection. With that, the

01:36platinum-based chemotherapy is the absolute turning point because that will actually eliminate the cancer

01:42with several treatment doses. And that itself is what happened to Lance Armstrong.

01:48From 1999 onwards, he overcome the surgery on his personal life. He had multiple partners and actually

01:56had multiple children. So that didn't impair his sex life or his chemotherapy-induced infertility.

02:03In addition to that, he also turned adversity into inspiration. What he said is that pain is temporary,

02:10but quitting is forever. Indeed, that's true because what he continued to do was be an inspiration to

02:17many people. He started raising money for more than $500 million for his Live Strong campaign and also

02:25the Yellow Band campaign. But more importantly, he raised a lot of awareness to know that testicular cancer

02:33happened in younger men. And therefore, regular self-inspection will help you to overcome all these

02:39problems of testicular cancer and also poor prognosis. Next week is going to be the final month of the year.

02:47December. And to make December a little bit more light-hearted, I'm going to tell you a few

02:52operations in urology that actually is actually quite humorous. First operation that I'm going to talk

02:58about actually is penile elongation. Stay tuned for next week's Putting Dr. G on the Spot.

EP302: Turning cancer adversity into health opportunity | PUTTING DR G ON THE SPOT

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