| Abstract: | This study describes the management of early stage non-seminomatous germ cell tumours of the testis in Edinburgh between 1970 and 1981. There were 69 patients in clinical Stage I and 22 patients in clinical Stage IIA. All were treated by orchiectomy and radiotherapy to the para-aortic nodes. Some of the patients with Stage IIA disease received additional therapy. The overall 5-year actuarial survival rate was 83%. In a group of 52 patients with Stage I disease who had had lymphography as part of their initial staging the 5-year actuarial survival rate was 94.2%. The overall relapse rate was 27/91 (29.7%). The relapse rate in State IIA disease was 11/22 (50%) and the 5-year actuarial survival rate was 64%. Patients with primary tumours beyond T1 had a significantly higher relapse rate than patients with T1 primary tumours: 10/20 (50%) and 13/52 (25%) respectively. The histology of the primary tumour did not have a statistically significant influence upon relapse rate. |
