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Adjuvant Therapies of Cancer pp 269–276Cite as

Adjuvant Therapy of Testicular Carcinoma

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Adjuvant chemotherapy could have a role in the management of stage I and II testicular tumors. The results presented in this paper deal with the treatment of stage II testicular tumors only.

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  1. Westdeutsches Tumorzentrum, Innere Universitätsklinik und Poliklinik (Tumorforschung), Hufelandstrasse 55, D-4300, Essen, Germany

    C. G. Schmidt

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  1. Institut de Cancérologie et d’Immunogénétique, Hôpital Paul-Brousse, 14-16 Avenue Paul-Vaillant-Couturier, F-94800, Villejuif, France

    G. Mathé

  2. Istituto Nazionale per lo Studio e la Cura dei Tumori, Via Venezian 1, I-20133, Milan, Italy

    G. Bonadonna

  3. Health Science Center Department of Internal Medicine Section of Hematology and Oncology Tucson, The University of Arizona, 85724, AZ, USA

    S. Salmon

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Schmidt, C.G. (1982). Adjuvant Therapy of Testicular Carcinoma. In: Mathé, G., Bonadonna, G., Salmon, S. (eds) Adjuvant Therapies of Cancer. Recent Results in Cancer Research, vol 80. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-81685-7_43

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