Risk of testicular cancer in subfertile men: Case-control study

British Medical Journal

Volumn 318, Issue 7183, 1999, Pages 559-562

  Møller, Henrik ^a   Skakkebæk, Niels E ^b  

^a DANISH NATIONAL RESEARCH FOUNDATION   (Denmark)

^b University of Copenhagen   (Denmark)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CANCER RISK; CONTROLLED STUDY; DENMARK; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MALE INFERTILITY; PATERNITY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEMINOMA; TESTIS CANCER;

EID: 0037770143     PISSN: 09598146     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1136/bmj.318.7183.559     Document Type: Article

References (26)

1. 1 Coleman MP, Esteve J, Damiecki P, Arslan A, Renard H. Trends in cancer incidence and mortality. IARC Sci Publ 1993;121:521-42.
2. 2 Forman D, Møller H. Trends in incidence and mortality of testicular cancer. Cancer Surveys 1994;19/20:323-41.
3. 3 Adami HO, Bergstrom R, Mohner M, Zatonsky W, Storm H, Ekbom A, et al. Testicular cancer in nine northern European countries. Int J Cancer 1994;59:33-8.
4. 4 Bostofte E, Serup J, Rebbe H. Has the fertility of Danish men declined through the years in terms of semen quality? A comparison of semen qualities between 1952 and 1972. Int J Fertil 1983;28:91-5.
5. 5 Bendvold E. Semen quality in Norwegian men over a 20-year period. Int J Fertil 1989;34:401-4.
6. 6 Carlsen E, Giwercman A, Keiding N, Skakkebæk NE. Evidence for decreasing quality of semen during past 50 years. BMJ 1992;305:609-13.
7. 7 Auger J, Kunstmann JM, Czyglik F, Jouannet P. Decline in semen quality among fertile men in Paris during the past 20 years. N Engl J Med 1995;332:281-5.
8. 8 Irvine S, Cawood E, Richardson D, MacDonald E, Aitken J. Evidence of deteriorating semen quality in the United Kingdom: birth cohort study in 577 men in Scotland over 11 years. BMJ 1996;312:467-71.
9. 9 Pajarinen J, Laippala P, Penttila A, Karhunen PJ. Incidence of disorders of spermatogenesis in middle aged Finnish men, 1981-91: two necropsy series. BMJ 1997;314:13-8.
10. 10 Henderson BE, Benton B, Jing J, Yu MC, Pike MC. Risk factors for cancer of the testis in young men. Int J Cancer 1979;23:598-602.
11. 11 Skakkebæk NE, Berthelsen JG, Giwercman A, Müller J. Carcinoma-in-situ of the testis: possible origin from gonocytes and precursor of all types of germ cell tumours except spermatocytoma. Int J Androl 1987;10:19-28.
12. 12 Møller H. Clues to the aetiology of testicular germ cell tumours from descriptive epidemiology. Eur Urol 1993;23:8-13.
13. 13 United Kingdom Testicular Cancer Study Group. Aetiology of testicular cancer: association with congenital abnormalities, age at puberty, infertility, and exercise. BMJ 1994;308:1393-9.
14. 14 Møller H, Skakkebßk NE. Testicular cancer and cryptorchidism in relation to prenatal factors: case-control studies in Denmark. Cancer Causes Control 1997;8:904-12.
15. 15 Sharpe RM, Skakkebæk NE. Are oestrogens involved in falling sperm counts and disorders of the male reproductive tract? Lancet 1993;341:1392-5.
16. 16 Storm HH. The Danish cancer registry: a self-reporting national cancer registration system with elements of active data collection. IARC Sci Publ 1991;95:220-36.
17. 17 Breslow NE, Day NE. Statistical methods in cancer research. Vol I. The analysis of case-control studies. IARC Sci Publ 1980;32:5-338.
18. 18 Armstrong BK, White E, Saracci R. Principles of exposure measurement in epidemiology. Monographs in epidemiology and biostatistics. Vol 21. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1992.
19. 19 MacMahon B, Cole P, Lin TM, Lowe CR, Mirra AP, Ravnihar B, et al. Age at first birth and cancer of the breast. A summary of an international study. Bull World Health Organ 1970;43:209-21.
20. 20 Møller H, Skakkebæk NE. Risks of testicular cancer and cryptorchidism in relation to socio-economic status and related factors: case-control studies in Denmark. Int J Cancer 1996;66:287-93.
21. 21 Bergstrom R, Adami HO, Mohner M, Zatonski W, Storm H, Tretli S, et al. Increase in testicular cancer in six European countries: a birth cohort phenomenon. J Natl Cancer Inst 1996;88:727-33.
22. 22 Akre O, Ekbom A, Hsieh CC, Trichopoulos D, Adami HO. Testicular nonseminoma and seminoma in relation to perinatal characteristics. J Natl Cancer Inst 1996;88:883-9.
23. 23 Møller H, Prener A, Skakkebæk NE. Testicular cancer, cryptorchidism, inguinal hernia, testicular atrophy, and genital malformations: case-control studies in Denmark. Cancer Causes Control 1995;7:264-74.
24. 24 Berthelsen JG, Skakkebæk NE. Gonadal function in men with testis cancer. Fertil Steril 1983;39:68-75.
25. 25 Hansen PV, Trykker H, Helkjær PE, Andersen, J. Testicular function in patients with testicular cancer treated with orchiectomy alone or orchiectomy plus cisplatin-based chemotherapy. J Natl Cancer Inst 1989;81:1246-50.
26. 26 Ho GT, Gardner H, DeWolf WC, Loughlin KR, Morgentaler A. Influence of testicular carcinoma on ipsilateral spermatogenesis. J Urol 1992;148:821-5.