Financial Distress in Testicular Cancer Survivors and Its Impact on Cancer Survivors' Quality of Life in the German Healthcare System.

Introduction: Testicular cancer accounts for the largest proportion of solid tumors in young adult men. With an average age of onset under 40 years and a relative 5-year survival of 97%, it is one of the prognostically favorable tumors. Little is known about the relationship between the financial burden and physical and emotional health of testicular cancer survivors.

Prediction of Treatment Response and Survival with Chemotherapy for Metastatic Penile Cancer by the Modified Glasgow Prognostic Score.

Purpose: There is increasing evidence that a persistent systemic inflammatory response predicts lower survival in patients with malignant disease. The modified Glasgow Prognostic Score (mGPS) is defined by a combination of elevated C-reactive protein (CRP) (>10 mg/L) and hypoalbuminemia (<35 g/L). It is considered as an independent prognostic marker in several organ malignancies.

Intravesical Bacillus Calmette-Guérin versus mitomycin C for Ta and T1 bladder cancer.

Background: People with urothelial carcinoma of the bladder are at risk for recurrence and progression following transurethral resection of a bladder tumour (TURBT). Mitomycin C (MMC) and Bacillus Calmette-Guérin (BCG) are commonly used, competing forms of intravesical therapy for intermediate- or high-risk non-muscle invasive (Ta and T1) urothelial bladder cancer but their relative merits are somewhat uncertain.

Objectives: To assess the effects of BCG intravesical therapy compared to MMC intravesical therapy for treating intermediate- and high-risk Ta and T1 bladder cancer in adults.

Cross-Sectional Patient-Reported Outcome Measuring of Health-Related Quality of Life With Establishment of Cancer- and Treatment-Specific Functional and Symptom Scales in Patients With Penile Cancer.

Background: In the field of uro-oncology, the assessment of quality of life (QoL) is considered an integral part of clinical research. Because of the rarity of penile cancer, there is currently no cancer-specific questionnaire module available to assess the tumor-specific loss of function and symptoms in terms of influencing QoL. The aim of the study was to apply a validated questionnaire (European Organization for Research and Treatment of Cancer [EORTC] QLQ-C30) in a population of patients diagnosed with penile cancer and to compare these results to reference data of the general population.

Analysis of psychosocial stress factors in patients with renal cancer.

Background: The experience of stress in patients with cancer through helplessness and the suppression of emotions correlates with unfavorable disease prognosis. Significant distress can reduce survival probability as well as subjectively perceived poor quality of life. Currently, there are few data on psychological stress in patients with renal cancer and most studies focus on survival time.

Psychosocial Distress in Bladder Cancer Stratified by Gender, Age, Treatment, and Tumour Stage.

Objectives: Cancer patients have to cope with anxieties -concerning their prognosis, potential recurrence/progression, and treatment-associated sequelae. Stress-related psychosocial factors influence survival and disease-related mortality in cancer patients. Despite improvements in diagnosis and treatment, bladder cancer (BC) remains characterized by high rates of recurrence and progression.

Critical evaluation of the PADUA score in a retrospective analysis of open partial nephrectomy.

Objective: Several nephrometry scores have been developed to predict postoperative complications in partial nephrectomy based on preoperative imaging characteristics. The most widely used is the PADUA score. We retrospectively evaluated the value of the PADUA score in a consecutive series of open partial nephrectomy in our institution.

Surgical resection of locally recurrent renal cell carcinoma after nephrectomy: Oncological outcome and predictors of survival.

Objective: To describe the course of disease of patients surgically treated for locally recurrent renal cell carcinoma (LRRCC) after nephrectomy and to identify potential predictive factors for long-term survival.

Patients And Methods: We, retrospectively, identified 54 patients who underwent surgical resection of LRRCC after open nephrectomy for localized kidney cancer. The median age at time of surgery for LRRCC was 65 years.

A Paratesticular Multicystic Tumor of the Tunica Vaginalis Testis as Rare Paratesticular Cystadenoma.

The cystadenoma of the testis and paratestis arising from an unequivocal oviduct-like structure, which is morphologically almost identical with those of the ovarian surface epithelium. These are very rare benign tumors of young adults. They present as asymptomatic cystic lesions.