I was blindsided by my stage I testicular cancer diagnosis at age 42. It was the fall of 2020, and I had just moved to a new city, started a new career and, along with everyone else, was dealing with the day-to-day challenges of the COVID-19 pandemic.

Once I digested the news, my fiancée and I determined that going to MD Anderson was the obvious choice. Although I had never dealt with cancer, it didn’t take much digging to uncover...