title: Seminoma patients treated at a minor oncological department during 1986-2010: treatment and outcome.
abstract: OBJECTIVE
  To present results for patients with seminoma treated at our University Clinic.
  
  
  METHODS
  All men treated for seminoma in 1986-2010 at the Department of Oncology, University Hospital of North Norway were included (n=232). Treatment was standardized from 2000 as the Swedish and Norwegian Testicular Cancer Project (SWENOTECA) published their first standardised seminoma treatment program (SWENOTECA V).
  
  
  RESULTS
  The percentage of patients administered adjuvant radiotherapy (RT) for clinical stage (CS) I decreased gradually from the late 1990s and was abandoned in 2005. Surveillance was the most common management strategy for CS I after 2000. Overall, disease in 1.9% and 11% of patients relapsed after adjuvant RT and surveillance, respectively. There were no relapses after treatment for metastatic disease. Cancer-specific survival was 100%, and overall survival 95% for the total group.
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  The treatment outcome at our University Clinic is excellent with 100% cancer-specific survival, and is essentially a result of the bi-national SWENOTECA network.
authors: Department of Oncology, University Hospital of North Norway, Tromsø, Norway Institute of Clinical Medicine, University of Tromsø, Tromsø, Norway hege.sagstuen.haugnes@uit.no.
authors: Hege S
authors: HS
authors: Haugnes
authors: Department of Medicine, Nordland Hospital Lofoten, Leknes, Norway.
authors: Øivind
authors: Ø
authors: Solhaug
authors: Department of Medicine, Nordland Hospital Vesterålen, Stokmarknes, Norway.
authors: Johannes
authors: J
authors: Stenberg
authors: Department of Oncology, University Hospital of North Norway, Tromsø, Norway Institute of Clinical Medicine, University of Tromsø, Tromsø, Norway.
authors: Line V
authors: LV
authors: Hjelle
authors: Department of Oncology, University Hospital of North Norway, Tromsø, Norway Institute of Clinical Medicine, University of Tromsø, Tromsø, Norway.
authors: Roy M
authors: RM
authors: Bremnes
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D000368:Aged; D000369:Aged, 80 and over; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D009367:Neoplasm Staging; D018714:Radiotherapy, Adjuvant; D018239:Seminoma / Q000401:mortality / Q000473:pathology / Q000532:radiotherapy*; D013736:Testicular Neoplasms / Q000401:mortality / Q000473:pathology / Q000532:radiotherapy*; D013997:Time Factors; D016896:Treatment Outcome
keywords: Seminoma; carboplatin; chemotherapy; radiotherapy; surveillance; survival