Urologic tumors in the federal republic of germany : Data on 56,013 cases from hospital cancer registries
✍ Scribed by Claus G. Fischer; Werner Waechter; Sigurd Kraus; Enriqueta Fuentecilla Perez; Wolfgang Weidner; Joachim Dudeck
- Publisher
- John Wiley and Sons
- Year
- 1998
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 123 KB
- Volume
- 82
- Category
- Article
- ISSN
- 0008-543X
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✦ Synopsis
patients with urologic tumors. Of these cases, tumors of the kidney (n Å 11,424) Giessen, Giessen, Germany. constituted 20.4%. In 94.6% of the cases, histologic investigation revealed a renal cell carcinoma, classified as follows: pT1, 5.8%; pT2, 53.6%; pT3, 37.2%; and pT4, 3.4%. Tumors of the urinary bladder (n Å 16,246) constituted 29.0% of all urologic tumors. In 93.8% of cases, a transitional cell carcinoma was detected, classified as follows: pTis, 1.0%; pTa, 36.9%; pT1, 29.6%; pT2, 16.9%; pT3, 11.4%; and pT4, 4.4%. Transitional cell carcinomas of the ureter or of the collecting system (n Å 1846) constituted 3.3% of the cases. The proportion of testicular tumors (n Å 6594) amounted to 11.8%; 53.6% of the germ cell tumors (n Å 6281) were seminomas and 46.6% were nonseminomas; 66.3% of the cases were lymph node negative. Tumors of the prostate (n Å 19,903) constituted 35.5% of the cases. During the period 1987-1992, the proportion of lymph node positive prostate carcinomas decreased, from 39.8% to 16.2%.
CONCLUSIONS.
A detailed analysis of these data shows how hospital cancer registries can contribute to the discussion of issues regarding diagnosis and therapy of urologic tumors.