[Treatment of patients with disseminated testicular germ cell tumors]

Vopr Onkol. 2015;61(2):289-96.
[Article in Russian]

Abstract

Testicular germ cell tumors are rare diseases of young age with high sensitive to cytostatic therapy. Their complex treatment should be based on prognostic factors and individual properties of disease. It includes chemotherapy followed by cytoreductive surgery of residual lesions according to international standards and guidelines. This approach is highly effective and allows curing the majority of patients with advanced disease.

Publication types

  • Lecture
  • Review

MeSH terms

  • Algorithms
  • Antineoplastic Combined Chemotherapy Protocols / therapeutic use*
  • Biomarkers, Tumor / blood
  • Humans
  • Magnetic Resonance Imaging
  • Male
  • Neoplasms, Germ Cell and Embryonal / drug therapy*
  • Neoplasms, Germ Cell and Embryonal / pathology*
  • Prognosis
  • Russia
  • Testicular Neoplasms / drug therapy*
  • Testicular Neoplasms / pathology*
  • Tomography, X-Ray Computed

Substances

  • Biomarkers, Tumor

Supplementary concepts

  • Testicular Germ Cell Tumor