Jossy Ndung u, a testicular cancer survivor during an interview at Rift Valley Provincial General Hospital on April 20, 2021. [Kipsang Joseph, Standard]
Jossy Ndung’u began experiencing persistent headaches, vomiting and unexplained weight loss before developing a scrotal swelling in May 2018. A doctor in Nakuru County instructed that he underwent urgent surgery.
“The medics removed a tumour weighing 270 grams from my scrotum,” recalls Ndung’u who at 21 had testicular cancer.
He did six sessions of chemotherapy and 25 others of radiotherapy at the Oncology unit at the Nakuru Level Five Hospital, leaving him financially and emotionally drained.
To know whether one has testicular cancer, all a man needs is to do a pregnancy test just like a woman. A positive result means one has cancer.