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Rudy Hernandez, along with the help of Kaiser Permanente, is urging families and physicians to help in the fight against cancer as October marks Testicular Cancer Awareness Month in California. After meeting Hernandez, a cancer survivor, at a California State University, Bakersfield alumni event in 2005, then-Assemblyman Kevin McCarthy, agreed to introduce House Resolution 22 declaring October as Testicular Cancer Awareness month. Together with Kaiser Permanente the group encouraged Kern County to educate themselves about the disease. “Rudy's story shows that cancer does not discriminate,” said Dr. Abhay Risbud, Hernandez’s Kaiser Permanente oncologist. “Many think that cancer is a disease that only afflicts older people, but younger generations need to know that they are at risk too and take the appropriate precautions.” Hernandez was diagnosed with advanced testicular cancer in April 2004 when he was 28 years old, and with his cancer now...
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