Open AccessSurvival Outcomes of Patients With Primary Mediastinal Germ Cell Tumors: A Retrospective Single-institutional Experience
Author(s) -
Hiroshi Yaegashi,
Takahiro Nohara,
Kazuyoshi Shigehara,
Kouji Izumi,
Yoshifumi Kadono,
Tomoyuki Makino,
Kaname Yamashita,
Koushiro Ohtsubo,
Hiroko Ikeda,
Atsushi Mizokami
Publication year - 2022
Publication title -
cancer diagnosis and prognosis
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
ISSN - 2732-7787
DOI - 10.21873/cdp.10116
Subject(s) - seminoma , medicine , malignancy , germ cell tumors , germ cell , retrospective cohort study , concomitant , somatic cell , oncology , survival rate , stage (stratigraphy) , chemotherapy , biology , paleontology , biochemistry , gene
Primary mediastinal non-seminomatous germ cell tumors (PMNSGCTs) are occasionally complicated by a hematologic malignancy, as with somatic-type malignant tumors called germ cell tumors with somatic-type malignancy (GCTSTM) and are known to have a poor prognosis.