Relationship of blood type to nonseminomatous testes tumor. Clue to genetic link.
A retrospective review of blood types of patients undergoing retroperitoneal lymphadenectomy was performed and revealed a significant number of patients had type A blood. No known normal population has this high percentage of type A blood. We believe this may suggest a genetic predisposition of patients with Type A blood to have nonseminomatous germinal cell carcinoma.
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