How would you manage a patient with stage 1 seminoma on surveillance without prior radiation or chemotherapy who develops para-aortic lymphadenopathy without increase in tumor markers?

Topics: Radiation Oncology • Genitourinary Cancers • Medical Oncology • Testicular Cancer

Would you radiate? Surgery? Chemo? Follow with short interval scans?

How would size of adenopathy (e.g. <2cm vs larger) and time of recurrence (within first 3 or 6 months vs later) inform your decision?

Answer from: Medical Oncologist at Academic Institution

If there is a new lymph node that was not present on prior surveillance scans and is in the typical location (interaortocaval for right sided primary and left para aortic for left sided primary), this is a pathological node and not a reactive node. If it is larger than 3 cm, we prefer BEP X 3 with e...

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