Sam initially had an operation at his local hospital to remove his testicle – but after scans showed the cancer had spread to some of his abdominal lymph nodes, he had 3 cycles of chemotherapy at The Christie.
After his chemotherapy ended in September, further tests showed some of his lymph nodes were still enlarged – meaning he would he need an operation to remove them.
Sam told BBC Radio Manchester he felt that the hospital had “smashed it”.
“My surgeon, Mr Aziz Gulamhusein, was very straight with me that my case was complicated, as some of the lymph nodes were pressing up against major blood vessels,” Sam explained.
“It was scary, but I have always felt in very safe hands at The Christie, and this was no different.”
“I had a robotic operation, which generally has a much shorter recovery time than open surgery, but I never expected to leave hospital the same day.
“[But] at the end of the day, I was feeling pretty good.
“I decided that I wanted to go home.”
Doctors at the Christie told Sam he was the first person, probably in the whole of Europe, to be able to do that.