Brian Sluga continues to share his story of survivorship with the world.
Sluga, a testicular most cancers survivor, has been a contributing blogger for CURE’s web site, curetoday.com, since January 2024, and he’ll give readers additional perception into his most cancers journey and long-term survivorship in his upcoming e-book, “The Shriek I Do Keep in mind.”
The e-book, Sluga tells CURE in an interview, shall be launched through Two Penny Publishing in early February 2026, forward of Testicular Most cancers Consciousness Month in April.
“‘The Shriek I Do Keep in mind’ is a narrative of braveness,” Sluga stated. “[As] a testicular most cancers survivor, I share how, as a younger school athlete, I discovered a lump. I had no concept what it was or how it could change my life perpetually. My e-book is about hope and survival after most cancers. It’s a testomony of devotion from a younger school athlete who had the whole lot going for him.”
The e-book, Sluga stated, takes readers by means of his sickness and supplies an inside have a look at a younger man coping with problems with fertility, sexual well being and physique picture. It gives the reader what Sluga describes as a practical and profound portrayal of somebody within the prime of their life, exploring school struggles, sexual relationships, examined religion and issues of psychological well being.
“What poured out of me was a response to what I noticed after being on the working desk,” Sluga wrote in
Sluga, an Illinois native who was recognized at 20 years outdated and is now retired and residing in Florida, shared how he believes attitudes towards most cancers have modified since he obtained his analysis.
“Extra persons are speaking about most cancers at the moment than they have been years in the past, and it is affecting extra individuals,” Sluga stated. “So my entire cause for the e-book is not only to inform my story, but it surely’s to inform those who for males, it’s not a shameful factor. You already know, it is type of like when you’re on a subway and when you see one thing, say one thing.”
Sluga, who discovered that he had a ardour for operating when he was within the sixth grade, stated that he found his testicular most cancers throughout a postrun bathe whereas in school.
“[The book] is about operating, as a result of that was what I did,” Sluga stated. “However it’s extra in regards to the psychological survival [aspect], as a result of … no one had talked about something to me about freezing your sperm or with the ability to have a household…nothing was talked about.… So it goes by means of as much as [the] current day.”
By his columns for CURE and now his upcoming e-book, Sluga is a part of a wave of visibility for sufferers with most cancers in addition to survivors.
“After I was in my 20s, for ladies, if any individual had breast most cancers, you simply [were quiet about it],” he stated. “Now, there’s the pink ribbon. So with breast most cancers, persons are speaking about it. We do not wish to hold it within the closet. I believe that is the good factor [about] what CURE does, in my expertise.”
