Annals of Oncology Advance Access originally published online on January 27, 2008
Annals of Oncology 2008 19(3):407-408; doi:10.1093/annonc/mdm594
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Stage I seminoma and carboplatin risks
Department of Clinical Oncology, Royal Marsden NHS Foundation Trust and Institute of Cancer Research, Downs Road, Sutton, Surrey SM2 5PT, UK
(E-mail: alan.horwich@icr.ac.uk)
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Should the report of carboplatin morbidity by Powles et al. [1] in this issue influence the management of patients with stage I seminoma post-orchidectomy? In a study of 199 patients treated with one or two cycles of adjuvant carboplatin as a single agent, and followed for between 0.1 and 20.1 years (median 9), the analysis showed no excess mortality compared with the age and sex-matched UK population with 95% confidence intervals (CIs) on their standardised mortality ratio (SMR) from 0.36 to 1.83.