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A Literature Review and Case Report of Metastatic Pure Choriocarcinoma
In 2012, testicular cancer was estimated to account for 940 disability adjusted life years in Australia; of these, 450 were years lost due to premature death and 500 were years of healthy life lost due to disease, disability, or injury (Australian Institute of Health and Welfare and Australasian Ass...
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4663315/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/26649213 http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2015/345018 |
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author | Lin, Diwei Tan, Amanda Jia Hui Singh-Rai, Rajinder |
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description | In 2012, testicular cancer was estimated to account for 940 disability adjusted life years in Australia; of these, 450 were years lost due to premature death and 500 were years of healthy life lost due to disease, disability, or injury (Australian Institute of Health and Welfare and Australasian Association of Cancer Registries, 2012). Testicular choriocarcinoma is one of the rarest variants of testicular germ cell tumours, accounting for less than 1% of testicular germ cell tumours and only about 0.19% of all testicular tumours. Management involves radical orchidectomy and chemotherapy. Even then, prognosis is poor. This case report describes a 20-year-old male with pure testicular choriocarcinoma with pulmonary metastases which showed sustained and complete response to adjuvant chemotherapy consisting of bleomycin, etoposide, and cisplatin. |
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spelling | pubmed-46633152015-12-08 A Literature Review and Case Report of Metastatic Pure Choriocarcinoma Lin, Diwei Tan, Amanda Jia Hui Singh-Rai, Rajinder Case Rep Oncol Med Case Report In 2012, testicular cancer was estimated to account for 940 disability adjusted life years in Australia; of these, 450 were years lost due to premature death and 500 were years of healthy life lost due to disease, disability, or injury (Australian Institute of Health and Welfare and Australasian Association of Cancer Registries, 2012). Testicular choriocarcinoma is one of the rarest variants of testicular germ cell tumours, accounting for less than 1% of testicular germ cell tumours and only about 0.19% of all testicular tumours. Management involves radical orchidectomy and chemotherapy. Even then, prognosis is poor. This case report describes a 20-year-old male with pure testicular choriocarcinoma with pulmonary metastases which showed sustained and complete response to adjuvant chemotherapy consisting of bleomycin, etoposide, and cisplatin. Hindawi Publishing Corporation 2015 2015-11-16 /pmc/articles/PMC4663315/ /pubmed/26649213 http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2015/345018 Text en Copyright © 2015 Diwei Lin et al. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/ This is an open access article distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited. |
spellingShingle | Case Report Lin, Diwei Tan, Amanda Jia Hui Singh-Rai, Rajinder A Literature Review and Case Report of Metastatic Pure Choriocarcinoma |
title | A Literature Review and Case Report of Metastatic Pure Choriocarcinoma |
title_full | A Literature Review and Case Report of Metastatic Pure Choriocarcinoma |
title_fullStr | A Literature Review and Case Report of Metastatic Pure Choriocarcinoma |
title_full_unstemmed | A Literature Review and Case Report of Metastatic Pure Choriocarcinoma |
title_short | A Literature Review and Case Report of Metastatic Pure Choriocarcinoma |
title_sort | literature review and case report of metastatic pure choriocarcinoma |
topic | Case Report |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4663315/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/26649213 http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2015/345018 |
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