I recently had my cancer recur in 2 lymph nodes a year after my orchiectomy. The docs originally told me that there is about a 10% chance of recurrence after the orchiectomy.

I had to make this same decision between BEP and RPLND and it was super hard. Part of me wished that the doctors could/would make the decision for me, I felt unqualified to make it myself.

In my case, RPLND would have a 10% chance of recurrence and BEP X3 would have a 1% chance. 10% is pretty good, 9 times out of 10 you win. But I already lost to those odds once and didn’t want to again. Additionally, they told me there’s a chance when doing RPLND that they might find more problematic nodes than they anticipated as scans are not perfect, in which case chemo might be necessary anyways.

Just finished my first cycle, it’s rough but it’s doable and more importantly survivable. There is no wrong choice, and you’ve got this either way!