Recent Trends in Survival of Testicular Cancer Patients – Nation-wide Population Based Study

Abstract

Moderate improvement in survival for TC patients in the Slovak Republic is probably influenced by diagnostic and therapeutic progress, including multidisciplinary care and patients concentration in specialized centers. The long-term follow-up of TC survivors can also help to prevent late side effects of the treatment modalities and to detect second malignancies.Key words: testicular cancer - seminoma - non-seminoma - age at diagnosis - survival.

Stage I testicular seminoma risk-adapted therapeutic management

“…Slovak Republic, has relatively high age-standardized rate and placed 8th worldwide (9.3/100 000) [1]. National data from the Slovak Republic indicate that 76.9% of diagnosed seminomas were CSI [3] and 5-year survival of patients with seminoma testis reached 96.5% (for the 2003-2007 cohort) [4]. Advances in treatments of patients over last decades have led to dramatic improvements in disease-free and overall survival.…”