Treatment of non seminomatous testicular tumors
Olier, C.
La Semaine des Hopitaux Organe Fonde Par l'Association d'Enseignement Medical des Hopitaux de Paris 57(47-48): 2039-2045
1981
ISSN/ISBN: 0037-1777 PMID: 6276989 Document Number: 177116
Progress in the diagnosis and treatment of NSTT have been registered during the last years. Tumor markers have permitted to lower the percentage of staging error ; nevertheless they have their limits and a return to normal of tumor markers do not mean obligatorily the disparition of a viable tumor. The treatment of NSTT is an emergency : lymphadenectomy is now, for most of authors limited and guided by extemporaneal exploration ; radiotherapy has a complementary target of detecting agent ; chemotherapy (particularly since CDDP was introduced) is very efficient in disseminated forms of disease giving long term remission in 50 to 70 % of cases. Actual results give, for next years, the hope of eradication of NSST in a high number of cases.