Clinicopathological features and survival of young Turkish patients with testicular germ cell tumors

Asian Pacific Journal of Cancer Prevention

Volumn 14, Issue 11, 2013, Pages 6889-6892

  Ozgun, Alpaslan ^a   Karagoz, Bulent ^a   Tunce, Tolga ^a   Emirzeoglu, Levent ^a   Celik, Serkan ^a   Bilgi, Oguz ^a  

^a GATA HAYDARPASA TRAINING HOSPITAL   (Turkey)

Author keywords

Prognosis; Testicular germ cell tumor; Treatment; Young Turkish patients

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; CANCER STAGING; FOLLOW UP; HUMAN; LIVER TUMOR; LUNG TUMOR; LYMPH NODE METASTASIS; MALE; METASTASIS; MIDDLE AGED; MORTALITY; MULTIMODALITY CANCER THERAPY; NEOPLASM; PATHOLOGY; PROGNOSIS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; SURVIVAL RATE; TESTICULAR GERM CELL TUMOR; TESTIS TUMOR; TUMOR RECURRENCE; TURKEY (REPUBLIC);

ADULT; COMBINED MODALITY THERAPY; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HUMANS; LIVER NEOPLASMS; LUNG NEOPLASMS; LYMPHATIC METASTASIS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NEOPLASM RECURRENCE, LOCAL; NEOPLASM STAGING; NEOPLASMS, GERM CELL AND EMBRYONAL; PROGNOSIS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SURVIVAL RATE; TESTICULAR NEOPLASMS; TURKEY;

EID: 84892457866     PISSN: 15137368     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.7314/APJCP.2013.14.11.6889     Document Type: Article

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