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Sandra Osborne, 40, is a radiologist. Her husband Colin was diagnosed and treated for testicular cancer.
'When it happened, we had one child already. I found that I was pregnant with our second on the Tuesday, and on the Saturday Colin found he had the cancer. And it just snowballed from there.
'The Urologist didn't mess around. The day after diagnosis, Colin had the operation to remove the testis. He had images that it would just be chopped off from underneath, but it wasn't like that at all. They cut you in your groin, so you're left with a scrotal sac - an empty sac - on one side.
'He still looks the same down there. He still has testosterone and hair. And still functions as a man, you know. With sex it's just the same.
'Obviously he's got the scars, but because they're in the crease of his groin it's not noticeable. But the actual scrotum itself looks fine. To us, it's made no difference. At the end of the day he's still Colin.
'You go through a lot of ups and downs but you do get through the nightmare - finding cancer in the abdomen, pelvis, lungs... But you do go on to lead a perfectly healthy life. He's been clear for six years now.'
95% of men diagnosed with testicular cancer recover and have full sexual function, like Colin
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