key articles
Cardiovascular risk in long-term survivors of testicular cancer
Thursday, 15 May 2008 - Long-term survivors of testicular cancer (TC) after cisplatin-based chemotherapy have an increased risk of cardiovascular disease. In a cross-sectional study, Vaughn et al.(2008) objectively assessed...
Authors: Vaughn et al.
Minimally invasive surgery in oncologic urology
Thursday, 1 May 2008 - In a review Bastide et al. (2008) highlighted the most important advances and results in minimally invasive oncologic surgery reported in the literature between September 2006 and September 2007.
For...
Authors: Bastide et al.
A 5-Year Followup Study of Asymptomatic Men With Testicular Microlithiasis
Sunday, 20 April 2008 - Testicular microlithiasis is an imaging entity of the testicle with questionable significance as a marker for testicular cancer. In 2001 Decastro et al. reported on a large prospective screening study...
Authors: Decastro et al.
Medical treatment of advanced testicular cancer
Thursday, 10 April 2008 - The medical treatment of advanced testicular germ cell tumors has changed over the past 30 years, with long-term survival now achieved in the majority of patients. Clinicians need to be familiar with the...
Authors: Feldman et al.
Doubling of testicular cancer incidence rate over the last 20 years in southern France
Sunday, 9 March 2008 - In recent decades, testicular cancer incidence has considerably increased in a majority of industrialized countries. In France, short reports suggested that the testicular cancer incidence rate has also...
Authors: Walschaerts et al.
Clinical significance of low level human chorionic gonadotropin in the management of testicular germ cell tumour
Friday, 29 February 2008 - The finding of an unexplainable persistent low level of serum human chorionic gonadotropin in the management of testicular cancer sometimes misleads physicians. To avoid unnecessary treatment Takizawa...
Authors: Takizawa et al.
Testicular dysgenesis syndrome and the origin of carcinoma in situ testis
Monday, 25 February 2008 - In a review, Sonne et al. (2008) described testicular dysgenesis syndrome and the origin of carcinoma in situ testis. Recent increases in male reproductive disorders have been linked to exposure to...
Authors: Sonne et al.
Post-chemotherapy Laparoscopic Retroperitoneal Lymph-Node Dissection in Testis Cancer Patients
Tuesday, 19 February 2008 - Retroperitoneal lymph node dissection (RPLND) is still the most sensitive and specific method for the detection of malignant tumour and mature teratoma in stage II nonseminomatous testicular carcinoma...
Authors: Maldonado-Valadez et al.
From Gonocytes to Testicular Cancer: The Role of Impaired Gonadal Development
Friday, 8 February 2008 - In a review, Rajpert-De Meyts and Hoei-Hansen (2008) summarized the evidence thattesticular cancer is a developmental disease of germ-cell differentiation.
Testicular germ-cell tumours occur primarily...
Authors: Rajpert-De Meyts & Hoei-Hansen
Testicular cancer risk in first- and second-generation immigrants to Denmark
Sunday, 3 February 2008 - Immigrant studies offer insights into the relative importance of environment and genes in disease etiology. There is considerable variation in testicular cancer incidence worldwide. Myrup et al. (2008)...
Authors: Myrup et al.
