ArticleAmerican journal of cancer research2019
The potential of brentuximab vedotin, alone or in combination with current clinical therapies, in the treatment of testicular germ cell tumors.
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- Choriocarcinoma: Diagnosis, treatment and management of a rare germ cell tumour. An update review.Tumori · 2026Review
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- TIMEAS, a promising method for the stratification of testicular germ cell tumor patients with distinct immune microenvironment, clinical outcome and sensitivity to frontline therapies.Cellular oncology (Dordrecht, Netherlands) · 2023Article
- EANO, SNO and Euracan consensus review on the current management and future development of intracranial germ cell tumors in adolescents and young adults.Neuro-oncology · 2022Article
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Abstract
Testicular germ cell tumors (TGCTs) are the commonest tumors in young men. With the advancement of chemotherapies, most TGCTs are successfully cured, even when diagnosed at an advanced and metastatic stage. However, a proportion of often young patients, median age 35-40, with advanced disease are not cured and will inevitably die. Therefore, there is an unmet need in this small population of young patients who are candidates for experimental approaches. We investigated a new therapeutic option for this group of patients, aiming to significantly improve their outcome. In recent years, many targeted therapies have been developed which demonstrated high efficacy and low toxicity. Brentuximab vedotin, a monomethyl auristatin E conjugated CD30 antibody, targets CD30 to kill cancer cells. As a large proportion of TGCTs express CD30, in particular embryonal carcinomas, we investigated
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