PMID: 6170417Nov 15, 1981Paper

Lactic dehydrogenase in the monitoring and prognosis of testicular cancer

Cancer
M Lippert, N Javadpour

Abstract

In a prospective study of 80 patients with germinal testicular cancer, serial determinations of lactic dehydrogenase (LDH), alpha-fetoprotein (AFP) and human chorionic gonadotrophin (HCG) were followed for a mean of 18.1 months. Serum LDH was found to be elevated more frequently with increasing tumor bulk. LDH was elevated in 78.0% of the patients with Stage III disease but only 26.3% of the Stage II patients and 20.0% of the pre-orchiectomy Stage I patients. In this study, serum HCG and AFP levels were always elevated in the presence of elevated serum LDH levels except in one patient when LDH was the only elevated marker, in which case it correlated with clinical disease. Correlation of these three serum markers is shown by elevation of LDH in 78.0% of the Stage III patients, AFP in 78.6%, and HCG in 76.2%. In addition, of the 43 patients who had normal LDH levels on initial presentation, their mean survival time (MST) at the end of the study was 15.5 months while the 26 patients who had elevated LDH levels on initial presentation had an MST of 9.2 months. Serum LDH, therefore, may be useful in evaluating patient prognosis as well as an adjunct in monitoring the treatment of patients with bulky testicular cancer. The combinati...Continue Reading

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