Testicular cancer in Luxembourg: incidence and outcome in relation to the different histo-pathological types (1980-2004).

Background: Increasing incidence rates of testicular cancer have been reported worldwide over the last three decades. Trends over time in the incidence rates of germ cell tumours (GCTs) in Luxembourg (Western Europe) and the outcome, both in relation to the different histological types, were analysed.

Methods: The population-based files of the Morphologic Tumour Registry collecting at a nation-wide level all testicular cancers diagnosed between 1980 and 2004 in the central department of pathology in Luxembourg were retrospectively reviewed.