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A Scottish national audit of current patterns of management for patients with testicular non-seminomatous germ-cell tumours. The Scottish Radiological Society and the Scottish Committee of the Royal College of Radiologists.

A detailed casenote review was performed on all 65 patients registered with testicular non-seminomatous germ cell tumours (NSGCT) during 1989 under the Scottish Cancer Registration Scheme. Details of management at presentation and 2 years following diagnosis were recorded and analysed. In a small nu...

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Autores principales: Howard, G. C., Clarke, K., Elia, M. H., Hutcheon, A. W., Kaye, S. B., Windsor, P. M.
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Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Nature Publishing Group 1995
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2033928/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/7577487
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author Howard, G. C.
Clarke, K.
Elia, M. H.
Hutcheon, A. W.
Kaye, S. B.
Windsor, P. M.
author_facet Howard, G. C.
Clarke, K.
Elia, M. H.
Hutcheon, A. W.
Kaye, S. B.
Windsor, P. M.
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description A detailed casenote review was performed on all 65 patients registered with testicular non-seminomatous germ cell tumours (NSGCT) during 1989 under the Scottish Cancer Registration Scheme. Details of management at presentation and 2 years following diagnosis were recorded and analysed. In a small number of patients an unacceptable delay in diagnosis was noted. Variation was found in the frequency and type of investigations performed on patients placed on surveillance, types of chemotherapy regimens used and numbers of patients entered into trials. Three per cent of patients had a biopsy of the contralateral testis and 27% of patients defaulted from clinic attendance. Considerable variation in the management of testicular NSGCT in Scotland has been identified. The introduction of management guidelines should result in a more consistent approach to the care of these patients. Support, both financial and psychological, may reduce the unacceptable rate of default.
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spelling pubmed-20339282009-09-10 A Scottish national audit of current patterns of management for patients with testicular non-seminomatous germ-cell tumours. The Scottish Radiological Society and the Scottish Committee of the Royal College of Radiologists. Howard, G. C. Clarke, K. Elia, M. H. Hutcheon, A. W. Kaye, S. B. Windsor, P. M. Br J Cancer Research Article A detailed casenote review was performed on all 65 patients registered with testicular non-seminomatous germ cell tumours (NSGCT) during 1989 under the Scottish Cancer Registration Scheme. Details of management at presentation and 2 years following diagnosis were recorded and analysed. In a small number of patients an unacceptable delay in diagnosis was noted. Variation was found in the frequency and type of investigations performed on patients placed on surveillance, types of chemotherapy regimens used and numbers of patients entered into trials. Three per cent of patients had a biopsy of the contralateral testis and 27% of patients defaulted from clinic attendance. Considerable variation in the management of testicular NSGCT in Scotland has been identified. The introduction of management guidelines should result in a more consistent approach to the care of these patients. Support, both financial and psychological, may reduce the unacceptable rate of default. Nature Publishing Group 1995-11 /pmc/articles/PMC2033928/ /pubmed/7577487 Text en https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/This article is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License, which permits use, sharing, adaptation, distribution and reproduction in any medium or format, as long as you give appropriate credit to the original author(s) and the source, provide a link to the Creative Commons license, and indicate if changes were made. The images or other third party material in this article are included in the article’s Creative Commons license, unless indicated otherwise in a credit line to the material. If material is not included in the article’s Creative Commons license and your intended use is not permitted by statutory regulation or exceeds the permitted use, you will need to obtain permission directly from the copyright holder. To view a copy of this license, visit https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/.
spellingShingle Research Article
Howard, G. C.
Clarke, K.
Elia, M. H.
Hutcheon, A. W.
Kaye, S. B.
Windsor, P. M.
A Scottish national audit of current patterns of management for patients with testicular non-seminomatous germ-cell tumours. The Scottish Radiological Society and the Scottish Committee of the Royal College of Radiologists.
title A Scottish national audit of current patterns of management for patients with testicular non-seminomatous germ-cell tumours. The Scottish Radiological Society and the Scottish Committee of the Royal College of Radiologists.
title_full A Scottish national audit of current patterns of management for patients with testicular non-seminomatous germ-cell tumours. The Scottish Radiological Society and the Scottish Committee of the Royal College of Radiologists.
title_fullStr A Scottish national audit of current patterns of management for patients with testicular non-seminomatous germ-cell tumours. The Scottish Radiological Society and the Scottish Committee of the Royal College of Radiologists.
title_full_unstemmed A Scottish national audit of current patterns of management for patients with testicular non-seminomatous germ-cell tumours. The Scottish Radiological Society and the Scottish Committee of the Royal College of Radiologists.
title_short A Scottish national audit of current patterns of management for patients with testicular non-seminomatous germ-cell tumours. The Scottish Radiological Society and the Scottish Committee of the Royal College of Radiologists.
title_sort scottish national audit of current patterns of management for patients with testicular non-seminomatous germ-cell tumours. the scottish radiological society and the scottish committee of the royal college of radiologists.
topic Research Article
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2033928/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/7577487
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