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A client diagnosed with testicular cancer expresses concerns about fertility. the client and his spouse desire to eventually have a family, and the nurse discusses the option of sperm banking. the nurse should inform the couple that sperm banking would need to be performed:

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The mainstay of treatment for testicular cancer is chemotherapy. This is to eradicate malignant cells in the testicle. As a consequence, the patient can be sterile as the chemotherapy also attacks healthy living sperm. Since the patient wants to build a family, he should store his sperm and get it preserved by cryopreservation before the treatment is started. 
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