Charles Farmer was in his twenties when he started feeling strange pain in different areas of his body. When he finally went to the doctor, he says, cancer was the last thing on his mind.
Charles Farmer, of Cherokee County, says he was in his twenties and newly married when he started feeling pain in his groin, all over his body, and tenderness in his breast. An ultrasound was what confirmed that Farmer had a suspicious mass in his testicle where he then had surgery to get it removed.Charles Farmer of Cherokee County, Georgia, was twenty-something and newly married, when he started feeling like something was off.
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. Instead, after an ultrasound confirmed a suspicious mass in his testicle, Farmer came to see Dr. Bryce Wyatt at Georgia Urology.The average age of diagnosis is 33, and Wyatt says younger men may overlook the symptoms.
"The day I met him, he was concerned, he looked scared, and I felt for him," Wyatt remembers. " I wanted to get this taken care of as soon as possible. He had some other signs of breast tenderness and swelling and those are concerning to be for metastatic spread, meaning the cancer had moved to other places. And the quicker we got that taken care of, the lower I could reduce that risk of spread.