[A clinical study of testicular tumors]

Hinyokika Kiyo. 1987 Sep;33(9):1396-403.
[Article in Japanese]

Abstract

Fifty-eight of the 44,698 patients seen at our Department, between 1972 and 1984 had a testicular tumor. The incidence rate was 0.13%. The mean age of these 58 cases was 28.6 years and two peak distributions, one in the 0 to 5 year and another in 26 to 30 year age group were observed. Among them, 54 patients (93.1%) had chief complaints of painless testicular swelling at initial examination. The vast majority of them had unilateral tumors; 28 in the right and 29 in the left. Only one patient had bilateral seminomas. Histologically, 30 of them (51.7%) were seminoma, 8 were embryonal carcinoma (13.8%), 2 were teratoma (3.5%) and the remaining 18 had tumors of double or multiple histological type. Most of the seminomas were treated by a combination of high orchiectomy and radiotherapy, and chemotherapy was done mainly for non-seminomatous cases. The 5-year survival rate calculated by the Kaplan-Meier method was 100% for patients with low stage (I, II) seminomas and 62% for those with non-seminomatous tumors.

Publication types

  • English Abstract

MeSH terms

  • Adolescent
  • Adult
  • Aged
  • Child
  • Child, Preschool
  • Choriocarcinoma / epidemiology*
  • Choriocarcinoma / mortality
  • Choriocarcinoma / therapy
  • Combined Modality Therapy
  • Dysgerminoma / epidemiology*
  • Dysgerminoma / mortality
  • Dysgerminoma / therapy
  • Humans
  • Infant
  • Japan
  • Male
  • Middle Aged
  • Neoplasm Staging
  • Neoplasms, Multiple Primary
  • Prognosis
  • Teratoma / epidemiology*
  • Teratoma / mortality
  • Teratoma / therapy
  • Testicular Neoplasms / epidemiology*
  • Testicular Neoplasms / mortality
  • Testicular Neoplasms / therapy