Age at Surgery for Undescended Testis and Risk of Testicular Cancer | Zendy

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Age at Surgery for Undescended Testis and Risk of Testicular Cancer

Author(s) -

Andreas Pettersson,

Lorenzo Richiardi,

Agneta Nordenskjöld,

Magnus Kaijser,

Olof Akre

Publication year - 2007

Publication title -

new england journal of medicine

Language(s) - English

Resource type - Journals

SCImago Journal Rank - 19.889

H-Index - 1030

eISSN - 1533-4406

pISSN - 0028-4793

DOI - 10.1056/nejmoa067588

Subject(s) - medicine , testicular cancer , relative risk , orchiopexy , population , cancer registry , poisson regression , cohort , risk factor , cancer , gynecology , incidence (geometry) , cohort study , retrospective cohort study , proportional hazards model , confidence interval , surgery , physics , environmental health , optics

Undescended testis, which is a risk factor for testicular cancer, is usually treated surgically, but whether the age at treatment has any effect on the risk is unclear. We studied the relation between the age at treatment for undescended testis and the risk of testicular cancer.

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