Abstract
To develop a more appropriate therapeutic strategy for treatment of nonpulmonary
visceral metastatic testicular seminoma based on the International Germ Cell
Consensus Classification, we reviewed the medical records of patients with
nonpulmonary visceral metastatic testicular seminoma who were treated over a
20-year period. Only 15 (2.2%) of the 686 cases of testicular seminoma were
nonpulmonary visceral metastatic seminoma. The median age of patients was 38
years (range, 22-53 years). Ten (67%) of the patients had an initial diagnosis
of supradiaphragmatic or visceral metastatic disease. In addition to
nonpulmonary visceral metastasis, all patients had lymph node metastasis as
well, the majority of which involved the retroperitoneal lymph nodes. The median
and mean progression-free survival durations after chemotherapy for advanced
disease were 19 months and 63.7 months, respectively. Six patients (40%)
survived, five relapsed after radiation therapy and four died of chemorefractory
disease not dependent on the specific regimen. Although the number of cases
reviewed in this study was small, we conclude that the choice of
chemotherapeutic regimen among the current treatments for nonpulmonary visceral
metastatic seminoma of testis primary does not present a different outcome.
Therefore, multimodality therapies using new strategies or new agents are well
indicated.