Do men with teratoma live longer?

Will a man with teratoma live longer? The name of teratoma sounds very scary, and I don't know if it can be cured. Experts say that if you go to the hospital for treatment in time after diagnosis, the cure rate is very high and it will not directly affect your life. Currently, surgical treatment is generally used and recovery is good.

Testicular teratoma examination

Ultrasound has important clinical value in determining the nature, size, location, proportion of testicular tissue occupied by the testicular tumor, and even selecting treatment methods. The ultrasound manifestations of testicular teratoma are clear mass boundaries, cystic solidity, cartilage, immature bone tissue or calcification in the mass. The serum alpha-fetoprotein (AFP) level of adult testicular teratoma patients is correlated with benign and malignant. The AFP level of children with testicular teratoma is within the normal range of the corresponding age group, but the blood AFP level of normal infants within 6 months varies greatly. Therefore, there is no clear clinical significance for the high or low AFP level of infants within 6 months.

Testicular teratoma treatment

Surgery is the first choice for the treatment of testicular teratoma. For children with testicular teratoma, testicular preservation surgery can be considered if the AFP level is normal, B-ultrasound shows the presence of normal testicular parenchyma, and intraoperative frozen pathology examination results exclude malignant tumors.

Patients with testicular dermoid cysts and testicular teratomas in children do not need other treatment after surgery. Radical orchiectomy plus retroperitoneal lymph node dissection is performed for postpubertal testicular teratomas with retroperitoneal lymph node metastasis. The vast majority of teratoma metastases are consistent with the pathological type of the primary lesion, but embryonal carcinoma components are also found in teratoma metastases. The malignant components in distant metastatic teratomas are not well responsive to chemotherapy regimens for germ cell tumors.