According to the CDC, 350 men will die this year from testicular cancer, a cancer sometimes considered a young man's disease. Marcie Fraser has more.

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It's not a common cancer. Four percent of men ages 16 to mid 30s will get it.

"It's a young man's disease. It's the most common solid tumor of the age group and this does strike at a time where they are totally unprepared where they are young men and unprepared to face the issue of cancer," said Dr. Hugh Fisher.

Experts say if caught in the early stages, it's highly curable, 100 percent in fact if it's stage one and confined in the testicle. The cause is still unclear, but 25 percent of patients were born with an undescended testicle.

"The opposite testicle is also at risk, so there is a life time risk of about three or four percent again if a young man gets a teste tumor one side, he could get another cancer on the other side," Fisher said.

Because this is a rapidly growing cancer, finding it early and getting to the doctor fast is critical.

'We urge young men to do self examination in the shower when the scrotal area is warm and easily palpable and if they feel a lump, they should consult a doctor," Fisher said.

Because the cancerous tumor is painless, men tend to delay going to the doctor.

"These are young men, they are healthy, they are not thinking about cancer and what that means and do tend to delay because it doesn't hurt," Fisher said.

Treatment options include surgery, radiation and sometimes chemotherapy, which also may also cause infertility. If you may want children later on, the experts do recommend sperm banking before treatment. Only about a third of patients have the risk if becoming infertile.

"Because these are young healthy population, often not married, often still family planning, we do have them bank or semen in a sperm bank and this can be used for years for artificial insemination that can be used," said Fisher.