key articles
Predicting metastasized seminoma using gene expression
Friday, 20 January 2012- C. G. Ruf and colleagues conducted a study to evaluate the usefulness of gene expression profiling for predicting metastatic status in testicular seminoma at the time of first diagnosis compared with...
Edited by: JV
Investigating the muscular effects of antineoplastic agents in testis cancer patients
Wednesday, 3 August 29011- Standard treatment for patients with disseminated germ cell tumours is combination chemotherapy with bleomycin, etoposide and cisplatin (BEP). This treatment is highly effective, but the majority of...
Edited by: JV
US study reaffirms guideline against early screening for testis cancer
Thursday, 23 September 2010- A review of studies emphasizing the pros and cons of testicular cancer screening helped reaffirm a 2004 U.S. Preventive Services Task Force recommendation against early screening of asymptomatic...
Edited by: JV
Study links DDT exposure in the womb to testicular cancer
Tuesday, 17 August 2010- Men exposed in the womb to the pesticide DDT and its related compounds are more likely to develop testicular cancer, according to a study by Public Health Institute (PHI) researchers published in the...
Edited by: ES
Scientists develop a model for investigating the origins of testicular cancer
Thursday, 5 August 2010- Scientists have developed a model that will enable them to investigate, for the first time, how human testes develop in baby boys while they are in the womb. Until now it has been impossible to study...
Edited by: ES
Testicular cancer diagnosis by non-invasive MRI
Friday, 26 February 2010- Researchers have found that non-invasive magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) is a good diagnostic tool for the evaluation and staging of testicular cancer and may improve patient care by sparing some men...
Edited by: JV
Optimal management of patients with nonseminomatous germ cell tumour
Monday, 28 December 2009- Controversy arises regarding the optimal management of patients with nonseminomatous germ cell tumor (NSGCT) who achieve a serologic and radiographic complete remission (CR) to systemic chemotherapy....
Edited by: JV
QoL in long-term survivors of testicular cancer
Tuesday, 3 November 2009- A growing number of patients with testicular cancer (TC) become long-term survivors. As a consequence, quality-of-life (QOL) issues become increasingly important.
Rossen and colleagues investigated QOL...
Edited by: JV
Treatment not testis cancer is biggest risk to survivors' health
Monday, 19 October 2009- Survivors of testicular cancer face an increased risk of long-term illness, not because of the malignancy, but the highly effective treatment they receive, according to a report published in the British...
Edited by: JV
Testis sparing surgery as option in managing benign and malignant testicular lesions
Friday, 10 April 2009 - The old dogma equalling diagnosis of any testicular mass to immediate radical orchiectomy (RO) seems to be confuted by the clinical experience accumulated in the last decade.
Much of the research...
Edited by: FGR
