How would you treat a recurrent seminoma after 1st line BEP, now growing during salvage TIP despite initial response?
Answer from: Medical Oncologist at Academic Institution
If this is truly growing seminoma, he is now platinum refractory and the ONLY chemotherapy option that would have a chance for cure would be to go straight to high dose carboplatin + etoposide with peripheral blood stem cell transplant. He also is not curable with radiation therapy.
If his serum hC...
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Medical Oncologist at Pacific Cancer Care Thank you so much for your reply, Dr. @Lawrence H....
Answer from: Medical Oncologist at Community Practice
Relapsed seminoma is a tough target. My first step (as usual) is to review all aspects of the case carefully - specifically, was "seminoma" called by an expert tumor pathologist? Over the years, I have seen several diffuse large cell lymphomas and also several variants of nonseminomatous germ cell t...
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Medical Oncologist at Pacific Cancer Care Thank you very much for your input! All very helpf...
Thank you so much for your reply, Dr. @Lawrence H....