Routine computerised tomographic scans of the thorax in surveillance of stage I testicular non-seminomatous germ-cell cancer - A necessary risk?

Annals of Oncology

Volumn 13, Issue 2, 2002, Pages 237-242

  Harvey, M L ^a   Geldart, T R ^a   Duell, R ^a   Mead, G M ^a   Tung, K ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL SOUTHAMPTON NHS FOUNDATION TRUST   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Stage I non seminomatous germ cell cancer; Surveillance programme; Thoracic computed tomography scans

Indexed keywords

ALPHA FETOPROTEIN; BIOLOGICAL MARKER; BLEOMYCIN; CARBOPLATIN; CHORIONIC GONADOTROPIN; CISPLATIN; ETOPOSIDE; LACTATE DEHYDROGENASE;

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CANCER COMBINATION CHEMOTHERAPY; CANCER EPIDEMIOLOGY; CANCER MORTALITY; CANCER RECURRENCE; CANCER RISK; CANCER SCREENING; CANCER STAGING; CONTROLLED STUDY; DRUG EFFICACY; FOLLOW UP; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; METASTASIS; NON SEMINOMATOUS GERMINOMA; ORCHIECTOMY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROGNOSIS; RADIATION CARCINOGENESIS; RADIATION EXPOSURE; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; TESTIS CANCER; THORAX DISEASE; THORAX RADIOGRAPHY; THORAX SCINTISCANNING; TREATMENT OUTCOME; UNITED KINGDOM;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; GERMINOMA; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NEOPLASM STAGING; RADIOGRAPHY, THORACIC; RISK; TESTICULAR NEOPLASMS; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED;

EID: 0036306358     PISSN: 09237534     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/annonc/mdf032     Document Type: Article

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