Late recurrence of testicular cancer

Late recurrence of nonseminomatous germ cell tumours of the testis is rare. The authors report on a 35-year-old man treated initially for embryonal cell carcinoma of the testis with metastases, who presented 12 years later with an increasing serum alpha-fetoprotein level and a biopsy-proven embryona...

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Veröffentlicht in:Canadian Journal of Surgery 1994-04, Vol.37 (2), p.165-167
Hauptverfasser: Embil, J M, Weinerman, B H, Pascoe, E A
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Sprache:eng
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Zusammenfassung:Late recurrence of nonseminomatous germ cell tumours of the testis is rare. The authors report on a 35-year-old man treated initially for embryonal cell carcinoma of the testis with metastases, who presented 12 years later with an increasing serum alpha-fetoprotein level and a biopsy-proven embryonal cell cancer in the hilus of the left lung. Because the tumour was highly resistant to two separate courses of cis-platinum-based chemotherapy and one course of radiotherapy, surgical resection for salvage was carried out. The patient was free of disease 3.5 years after the second operation. The possible reasons for the occurrence of this highly resistant metastatic testicular cancer are discussed. They include a second primary tumour and malignant degeneration of the original tumour. In this patient the latter cause was the most plausible.
ISSN:0008-428X
1488-2310