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How do you manage a patient with a history of non-seminomatous germ cell tumor who has a rising AFP after primary chemotherapy without any imaging evidence of recurrence?

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It would depend on the timing of the rise of AFP after chemotherapy, how elevated it is, whether they were good or poor risk patients at the time of chemotherapy, whether they had liver disease and whether the AFP was definitively elevated prior to chemo

In most cases, we sort of ignore AFP < 25 or ...

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