Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . SAN FRANCISCO — Retroperitoneal lymph node dissection conferred favorable survival rates among men with ...

Long-Term Outcomes Among Localized Prostate Cancer Survivors: Health-Related Quality-of-Life Changes After Radical Prostatectomy, External Radiation, and Brachytherapy Between 1989 and 2002, 453 ...

Please can you give a brief introduction to robotic RPLND and how this procedure has traditionally been performed? Robotic RPLND utilizes laparoscopy combined with robotic technology to perform ...

First-Line, Fixed-Duration Nivolumab Plus Ipilimumab Followed by Nivolumab in Clinically Diverse Patient Populations With Unresectable Stage III or IV Melanoma: CheckMate 401 Patients who underwent ...

We investigated the role of OCT4 immunohistochemical staining in detecting germ cell tumor lymph node metastases. Retroperitoneal lymph node dissection is important for staging and treatment of ...

Background The open approach represents the gold standard for postchemotherapy retroperitoneal lymph node dissection (O-PCLND) in patients with residual testicular cancer. We analyzed laparoscopic ...

Luca Antonelli, MD; Davide Ardizzone, MD; Isamu Tachibana, MD; Nabil Adra, MD; Clint Cary, MD; Lee Hugar, MD; Wade J. Sexton, MD; Aditya Bagrodia, MD; Michal Mego, MD ...

Patients with testicular cancer who have had the cancerous testicle removed may require resection of lymph nodes, depending on the type and extent of disease as defined by imaging and blood markers.

The appropriate integration of surgery and chemotherapy in the management of non-seminomatous germ-cell tumors (NSGCT) has resulted in overall survival rates of over 90% for all stages of the disease.

On the basis of National Comprehensive Cancer Network guidelines, clinical stage (CS) II seminoma is treated with radiotherapy or chemotherapy. Primary retroperitoneal lymph node dissection (RPLND) ...

A total of 18 patients showed evidence of seminomatous fractions in the primary histology report at the time of orchiectomy (L-PCLND: n = 12; 26.0% and for O-PCLND: n = 6; 28.5%). Two patients of the ...

Current evidence on the efficacy of laparoscopic retroperitoneal lymph node dissection is limited and there are safety concerns about the procedure. It should therefore not be used without special ...