Lymphoma of the testis

Abstract

The prognosis for lymphoma clinically localized to the testis at the time of original diagnosis is relatively favorable after orchiectomy and radiation therapy to the regional lymph nodes the previously held belief that life expectancy is poor for men with testicular lymphoma was due to failure in most reports to separate survival of those with localized tumor from that of patients with disseminated involvement at the time of orchiectomy. Histopathologically, all tumors were immature types, and all of the known 5-year survivors had reticulum cell lymphoma in contrast to germ cell tumors, lymphoma of the testis occurs in an older age group, has no special propensity to develop in cryptorchid testes, is more frequently bilateral, and tends to involve the skin and nasopharynx when dissemination occurs.