Article ID | Journal | Published Year | Pages | File Type |
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9600982 | Clinical Oncology | 2005 | 6 Pages |
Abstract
The proportion of patients with stage I seminoma has significantly increased. The good prognosis of patients with early stage disease is confirmed, with the outcome for some groups of patients being better than expected. There is a non-significant trend to improved results over the three 5-year cohorts. The outcome for patients with stage IV seminoma is worse than would be expected, but numbers are small. The poor prognosis of patients with non-seminomatous germ-cell tumours who fall into the International Germ Cell Consensus Classification (IGCCC) poor-prognostic group is confirmed. Failure of patients with metastatic non-seminomatous germ-cell tumours to achieve a complete response to initial therapy is shown to be a poor prognostic indicator.
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Authors
G.C.W. Howard, D.S. Conkey, S. Peoples, D.B. McLaren, T.B. Hargreave, D.N. Tulloch, W. Walker, G.R. Kerr,