Eric Shanteau, who decided to put off surgery for testicular cancer until after the Olympics, was cleared Wednesday to head to Beijing with the U.S. swim team. The 24-year-old Georrgia native made the team in the 200-meter breaststroke, finishing second ahead of former world-record holder Brendan Hansen. “If I didn’t make the team, the decision would have been easy: Go home and have the surgery. I made the team, so I had a hard decision. But, by no means am I being stupid about this,” Shanteau said. According to the National Cancer Institute, testicular cancer is relatively rare, accounting for 1 percent of male cancer cases in the U.S. It’s often diagnosed in younger men. About 8,000 men are diagnosed and 390 die from the disease each year.