Increased incidence of testicular cancer in men presenting with infertility and abnormal semen analysis

Journal of Urology

Volumn 174, Issue 5, 2005, Pages 1819-1822

  Raman, Jay D ^a   Nobert, Craig F ^a   Goldstein, Marc ^a,b  

^a WEILL CORNELL MEDICAL COLLEGE   (United States)

^b WEILL CORNELL MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Infertility; SEER program; Seminoma; Testicular neoplasms

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGE DISTRIBUTION; CANCER INCIDENCE; CANCER RISK; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CRYPTORCHISM; DATA BASE; GERM CELL TUMOR; HUMAN; MALE; MALE INFERTILITY; MEDICAL RECORD; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RACE DIFFERENCE; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; REVIEW; SEMEN ANALYSIS; TESTIS CANCER;

EID: 27544444864     PISSN: 00225347     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/01.ju.0000177491.98461.aa     Document Type: Article

References (20)

1. Greenhall, E. and Vessey, M.: The prevalence of subfertility: a review of the current confusion and a report of two new studies. Fertil Steril, 54: 978, 1990
2. Mosher, W. D. and Pratt, W. F.: Fecundity and infertility in the United States: incidence and trends. Fertil Steril, 56: 192, 1991
3. Engmann, L., Maconochie, N., Bekir, J. S., Jacobs, H. S. and Tan, S. L.: Cumulative probability of clinical pregnancy and live birth after a multiple cycle IVF package: a more realistic assessment of overall and age-specific success rates? Br J Obstet Gynaecol, 106: 165, 1999
4. Olivius, K., Friden, B., Lundin, K. and Bergh, C.: Cumulative probability of live birth after three in-vitro fertilization/intracytoplasmic sperm injection cycles. Fertil Steril, 77: 505, 2002
5. Honig, S. C., Lipshultz, L. I. and Jarow, J.: Significant medical pathology uncovered by a comprehensive male infertility evaluation. Fertil Steril, 62: 1028, 1994
6. Richie, J. P. and Steele, G. S.: Neoplasms of the testis. In: Campbell's Textbook of Urology, 8th ed. Edited by P. C. Walsh, A. B. Retik, E. D. Vaughan, Jr. and A. J. Wein. Philadelphia: W. B. Saunders Co., vol. 4, sect. X, chapt. 81, p. 2876, 2002
7. McKiernan, J. M., Goluboff, E. T., Liberson, G. L., Golden, R. and Fisch, H.: Rising risk of testicular cancer by birth cohort in the United States from 1973 to 1995. J Urol, 162: 361, 1999
8. Carlsen, E., Giwercman, A., Keiding, N. and Skakkebaek, N. E.: Evidence for decreasing quality of semen during the past 50 years. BMJ, 305: 609, 1992
9. Lass, A., Akagbosu, F., Abusheikha, N., Hassouneh, M., Blayney, M., Avery, S. et al: A programme of semen cryopreservation for patients with malignant disease in a tertiary infertility centre: lessons from 8 years' experience. Hum Reprod, 13: 3256, 1998
10. Petersen, P. M., Skakkebaek, N. E., Vistisen, K., Rorth, M. and Giwercman, A.: Semen quality and reproductive hormones before orchiectomy in men with testicular cancer. J Clin Oncol, 17: 941, 1999
11. Moller, H. and Skakkebaek, N. E.: Risk of testicular cancer in subfertile men: case-control study. BMJ, 318: 559, 1999
12. Jacobsen, R., Bostofte, E., Engholm, G., Hansen, J., Olsen, J. H., Skakkebaek, N. E. et al: Risk of testicular cancer in men with abnormal semen characteristics: cohort study. BMJ, 321: 789, 2000
13. Surveillance, Epidemiology, and End Results (SEER) Program (www.seer.cancer.gov) Databases (1992-2001), National Cancer Institute, Surveillance Research Program, Cancer Statistics Branch, released April 2004
14. World Health Organization: WHO Laboratory Manual for the Examination of Human Semen and Sperm-Cervical Mucus Interaction, 4th ed. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1999
15. Fleming, I. D., Cooper, J. S., Hensen, D. E., Hutter, R. V. P., Kennedy, B. J., Murphy, G. P. et al: AJCC Cancer Staging Manual, 5th ed. Philadelphia: Lippincott-Raven Publishers, 1997
16. Pasqualotto, F. F., Pasqualotto, E. B., Agarwal, A. and Thomas, A. J., Jr.: Detection of testicular cancer in men presenting with infertility. Rev Hosp Clin Fac Med Sao Paulo, 58: 75, 2003
17. Tal, R., Holland, R., Belenky, A., Konichezky, M. and Baniel, J.: Incidental testicular tumors in infertile men. Fertil Steril, 82: 469, 2004
18. Steele, G. S., Richie, J. P., Stewart, A. K. and Menck, H. R.: The National Cancer Data Base report on patterns of care for testicular carcinoma, 1985-1996. Cancer, 86: 2171, 1999
19. Skakkebaek, N. E., Berthelsen, J. G., Giwercman, A. and Muller, 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, 10: 19, 1987
20. Skakkebaek, N. E., Rajpert-De Meyts, E., Jorgensen, N., Carlsen, E., Petersen, P. M., Giwercman, A. et al: Germ cell cancer and disorders of spermatogenesis: an environmental connection? APMIS, 106: 3, 1998