Testicular cancer - Discoveries and updates

New England Journal of Medicine

Volumn 371, Issue 21, 2014, Pages 2005-2016

  Hanna, Nasser H ^a   Einhorn, Lawrence H ^a  

^a INDIANA UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

ALPHA FETOPROTEIN; BLEOMYCIN; CARBOPLATIN; CHORIONIC GONADOTROPIN BETA SUBUNIT; CISPLATIN; ETOPOSIDE; IFOSFAMIDE; LACTATE DEHYDROGENASE; OCTAMER TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR 4; PACLITAXEL; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR NANOG; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR SOX17; VINBLASTINE; ANTINEOPLASTIC AGENT;

ADJUVANT THERAPY; CANCER RADIOTHERAPY; CANCER RECURRENCE; CANCER RISK; CANCER STAGING; CANCER SURVIVAL; CARDIOVASCULAR DISEASE; CHROMOSOME 12Q; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CRYPTORCHISM; DOWN SYNDROME; ECHOGRAPHY; EVENT FREE SURVIVAL; FAMILY HISTORY; GENE OVEREXPRESSION; GENETIC PREDISPOSITION; GERM CELL TUMOR; HUMAN; HYPOGONADISM; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; LYMPH NODE DISSECTION; MALE; MALE INFERTILITY; MALIGNANT TRANSFORMATION; MEDICAL DECISION MAKING; METABOLIC SYNDROME X; MULTIPLE CYCLE TREATMENT; NEUROLOGIC DISEASE; NON SEMINOMATOUS GERMINOMA; ORCHIDOPEXY; ORCHIECTOMY; OVERALL SURVIVAL; PARAAORTIC LYMPH NODE; PERIPHERAL BLOOD STEM CELL TRANSPLANTATION; PHASE 3 CLINICAL TRIAL (TOPIC); PROGRESSION FREE SURVIVAL; PSYCHOSOCIAL DISORDER; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL (TOPIC); RESPIRATORY TRACT DISEASE; REVIEW; SEMINOMA; TESTIS BIOPSY; TESTIS CANCER; TESTIS TUMOR; TUMOR VOLUME; URINARY TRACT DISEASE; GENETICS; MULTIMODALITY CANCER THERAPY; NEOPLASM RECURRENCE, LOCAL; NEOPLASMS, GERM CELL AND EMBRYONAL; RADIOTHERAPY; TESTICULAR NEOPLASMS;

ANTINEOPLASTIC COMBINED CHEMOTHERAPY PROTOCOLS; COMBINED MODALITY THERAPY; HUMANS; MALE; NEOPLASM RECURRENCE, LOCAL; NEOPLASM STAGING; NEOPLASMS, GERM CELL AND EMBRYONAL; ORCHIECTOMY; RADIOTHERAPY; SEMINOMA; TESTICULAR NEOPLASMS;

EID: 84911453501     PISSN: 00284793     EISSN: 15334406     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1056/NEJMra1407550     Document Type: Review

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