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How do you approach therapy for a patient with stage IIIA NSGCT who received 4 cycles of EP followed by RPLND which revealed residual mixed teratoma and embryonal carcinoma?

Given persistent embryonal histology on RPLND, do you favor observation or TIP/VIP? What do you use to guide your decision?
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Medical Oncology · Indiana Univ Simon Cancer Center
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This is a query that can never be answered by evidence based medicine. Instead, all we have is (very old) historical data and perhaps common sense and logic. In 1974, we initiated our phase II study of PVB, with 4 courses of induction chemo followed by 2 years of maintenance vinblastine. That was ou...

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