Surgical treatment of clinical stage A nonseminomatous testis cancer.
Until clinical staging improves, patients presenting with clinical stage A nonseminomatous testis cancer should be offered the option of initial nerve-sparing RPLND versus surveillance. Either method of management may be successful in the individual patient. We feel each patient with clinical stage A disease must be informed of alternative methods of management and be allowed to choose the method of management that he feels best suits his needs in terms of risk benefit.
Foster
R S
RS
Indiana University School of Medicine, Indianapolis.
Donohue
J P
JP
D004525:Efferent Pathways; D004542:Ejaculation; D006801:Humans; D007196:Indiana; D008197:Lymph Node Excision / Q000379:methods*; D008297:Male; D009364:Neoplasm Recurrence, Local; D009367:Neoplasm Staging; D011183:Postoperative Complications / Q000517:prevention & control*; D012186:Retroperitoneal Neoplasms / Q000517:prevention & control*; D012187:Retroperitoneal Space / Q000294:innervation; D013736:Testicular Neoplasms / Q000473:pathology / Q000601:surgery*