SynthesisBritish journal of cancer2012
Childhood infections, orchitis and testicular germ cell tumours: a report from the STEED study and a meta-analysis of existing data.
Synthesis in British journal of cancer, 2012. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 6 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.
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- Impact of Sexual Activity on the Risk of Male Genital Tumors: A Systematic Review of the Literature.International journal of environmental research and public health · 2021Pooled it
- Testicular cancer incidence and associations with prior epididymo-orchitis or urinary tract infections: a national cohort study in Sweden, 1964-2018.BMJ oncology · 2026Article
- Collective Immunity to the Measles, Mumps, and Rubella Viruses in the Kyrgyz Population.Vaccines · 2025Article
- Association between medically diagnosed postnatal infection and childhood cancers: A matched case-control study in Denmark, 1978 to 2016.International journal of cancer · 2023Article
- Risk Factors for Testicular Cancer: Environment, Genes and Infections-Is It All?Medicina (Kaunas, Lithuania) · 2023Review
- Association between Testicular Cancer and Epididymoorchitis: A Population-Based Case-Control Study.Scientific reports · 2016Article
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Abstract
backgroundSimilarities between the age-specific incidence pattern of testicular germ cell tumours (TGCTs) and the age-specific incidence pattern of cancers of viral origin prompted us to evaluate the relationship between common infections occurring during childhood or young adult life and TGCT using existing data from the US Servicemen's Testicular Tumor Environmental and Endocrine Determinants (STEED) case-control study.
methodsTGCT cases diagnosed between 2002 and 2005 (n=767) were matched on age, race and serum draw date to at least one control (n=929).
resultsNone of the infections evaluated were associated with TGCT risk. Further, a meta-analysis of mumps and mumps orchitis or orchitis infection did not support an association with TGCT (mumps pooled odds ratio (OR): 1.03, 95% confidence interval (CI): 0.89-1.20; mumps orchitis or orchitis pooled OR: 1.80, 95% CI: 0.74-4.42).
conclusionBased on our evaluation of childhood and early life infections and meta-analyses of mumps and mumps orchitis and/or orchitis, TGCT does not appear to be associated with common childhood infections.
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