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Table 1 Patient characteristics

From: The differentiation status of primary gonadal germ cell tumors correlates inversely with telomerase activity and the expression level of the gene encoding the catalytic subunit of telomerase

Characteristics

 

No.

Patients

 

80

Median age in y

  

Control group

30.5

 

Patients with testicular germ cell tumors

 

   Pure seminoma

32.7

 

   Nonseminoma

25.1

 

Histology

  

Benign testicular tissue specimens (control group)

38

Germ cell tumors

42

Intratubular germ cell neoplasia unclassified

7

Clinical stage of patients with primary TGCT*

 

I

 

24

II

 

11

III

 

7

  1. ITGCNU (>30%) = intratubular germ cell neoplasia, unclassified in more than 30 % of the tubuli. TGCT = Testicular germ cell tumor, *Clinical stage according to the UICC classification [43].
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