Germ cell cancers are the most common solid tumors among men between 15 and 40 years.Non-seminomatous germ cell tumors(NSGCTs)represent a unique and exclusive cohort of germ cell tumor patients.Non-seminoma can harbor...Germ cell cancers are the most common solid tumors among men between 15 and 40 years.Non-seminomatous germ cell tumors(NSGCTs)represent a unique and exclusive cohort of germ cell tumor patients.Non-seminoma can harbor different histologic components.The most commonly found histologies are embryonal cell cancer,teratoma,yolk sack tumor and choriocarcinoma,as well as teratocarcinoma and seminoma,in combination with non-seminomatous germ cell tumors histologic types.The clinical definition of stage I nonseminoma is the absence of metastatic lesions on imaging and normal tumor markers.The cure rate for clinical stage I NSGCT is 99%and this can be achieved by three therapeutic strategies:Active surveillance with treatment at the time of relapse,retroperitoneal lymph node dissection or adjuvant chemotherapy.The balancing of these various strategies should always be based on an individual risk profile of NGSCG patient depending on the lymphovascular invasion of the tumor.展开更多
文摘Germ cell cancers are the most common solid tumors among men between 15 and 40 years.Non-seminomatous germ cell tumors(NSGCTs)represent a unique and exclusive cohort of germ cell tumor patients.Non-seminoma can harbor different histologic components.The most commonly found histologies are embryonal cell cancer,teratoma,yolk sack tumor and choriocarcinoma,as well as teratocarcinoma and seminoma,in combination with non-seminomatous germ cell tumors histologic types.The clinical definition of stage I nonseminoma is the absence of metastatic lesions on imaging and normal tumor markers.The cure rate for clinical stage I NSGCT is 99%and this can be achieved by three therapeutic strategies:Active surveillance with treatment at the time of relapse,retroperitoneal lymph node dissection or adjuvant chemotherapy.The balancing of these various strategies should always be based on an individual risk profile of NGSCG patient depending on the lymphovascular invasion of the tumor.
