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How do you stage patients with testicular cancer who may have CSIS disease?

An ASCO 2020 poster from the German Testicular Cancer Study Group found that 37% of CSIS seminoma and nonseminoma were miscatagorized resulting in inappropriate therapy.
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Medical Oncology · Testicular Cancer Commons
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This always looks easy, but you have to be careful and have patience. Some mistakes occur because providers use the PRE-orchiectomy markers or immediate post-orchiectomy markers before they have a chance to normalize. Also, providers sometimes react to low abnormal stable markers which often are fal...

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