Definitions

from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.

  • noun A malignant tumor of the testis arising from sperm-forming tissue.

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  • noun medicine A form of testicular cancer

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  • noun malignant tumor of the testis; usually occurring in older men

Etymologies

from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition

[Latin sēmen, sēmin-, semen; see semen + –oma.]

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Examples

  • Slide 16: CHOICE OF DOSE  In radical radiotherapy choice of dose & fractionation regimen depends on following factors: -  Radio sensitivity of tumor -  e.g. radiosensitive tumor such as seminoma can be controlled by total dose of 30Gy / 4wks  While for moderately sensitive sq. cell ca. of head & neck higher doses of the order of 50-60Gy in 5-6wks is used.

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  • These cells subsequently lose and rearrange their chromosomes to first generate a seminoma and then the more malignant and pluripotent EC cells, which stabilize at an approximately 3n DNA content

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  • Imaging: Chest radiography not needed in seminoma surveillance

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  • Imaging: Chest radiography not needed in seminoma surveillance

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  • Imaging: Chest radiography not needed in seminoma surveillance

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  • Especially in Britain, male patients are thankful for carboplatin's effects. 40 to 45 percent of men in England that have testicular cancer are plagued with seminoma.

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  • Studies have found that carboplatin is a safer drug for the first stage testicular cancer, seminoma, than taking the process of radiotherapy.

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  • Aberrant hypomethylation at this locus is one cause of Silver-Russell syndrome-a disease of asymmetry or hemihypertrophy associated with increased risk of malignancies including craniopharyngioma, testicular seminoma, hepatocellular carcinoma, and Wilms tumor

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  • Over the last 20-40 years, reports in the literature indicate a decrease in the quality of sperm and an increase in the frequency of testicular malignancies (especially seminoma) [6] - [8].

    PLoS ONE Alerts: New Articles Xiaoning Peng et al. 2009

  • The non-seminoma subtype represents tumors of mixed histology, including embryonal carcinoma, teratoma, and polyembryoma, choriocarcinoma, or yolk sac tumor

    PLoS ONE Alerts: New Articles Xiaoning Peng et al. 2009

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