SEMITrends Survey
The updated IGCCG classification indicated the presence of raised LDH over the cut-off of x2.5 ULN (upper limit of normal) as a prognostic factor for poorer survival in good risk-seminoma tumours. The retrospective analysis of survival outcomes in the modern era based on this criterion indicated that high-LDH good risk patients have a progression-free survival and overall survival that are similar to these of intermediate risk patients, and distinct from the low-LDH good risk patients.
We aim to assess the current real-life management trends amongst European oncologists that treat metastatic seminoma in the light of the updated IGCCCG classification on seminomas.
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