Nathalie Rives, Anne Perdrix, Sylviane Hennebicq, Jacqueline Saïas-Magnan, Marie-Claude Melin, Isabelle Berthaut, Claire Barthélémy, Myriam Daudin, Ethel Szerman, Jean-Luc Bresson, Florence Brugnon, Louis Bujan
Testicular cancer is the most common cancer in young men. Several studies have reported an alteration in semen quality in nonseminoma tumors, but this result has not been confirmed in all of the published data. We performed a retrospective study in a population of 1158 men with testicular cancer who banked sperm between 1999 and 2003 in 11 French Centre d'Etude et de Conservation des Oeufs et du Sperme humain laboratories. Our study evaluated prefreeze and postthaw sperm parameters according to patient medical history, tumor histological type, and disease stage...
November 2012: Journal of Andrology