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This topic includes links to society and government-sponsored guidelines from selected countries and regions around the world. We will update these links periodically; newer versions of some guidelines may be available on each society's website. Some societies may require users to log in to access their guidelines.
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International
●World Health Organization (WHO): Classification of tumours – Urinary and male genital tumours, 5th edition (2022)
•WHO: Classification of tumours of the urinary system and male genital organs – Part A: Renal, penile, and testicular tumours (2022)
●International Society of Urological Pathology (ISUP): Report from the consultation conference on molecular pathology of urogenital cancers (2020)
●ISUP: Testicular cancer consultation conference recommendations for the reporting and staging of testicular germ cell tumors (2017)
Canada
●Cancer Care Ontario (CCO): Guidelines and advice for complex surgery and perioperative systemic therapy for genitourinary cancer of the retroperitoneum (2019)
●CCO: Guidelines and advice for the management of stage I seminoma (2014)
●CCO: Guidelines and advice on PET imaging in testicular cancer (2009)
United States
●National Cancer Institute (NCI): Testicular cancer screening – Health professional version
●NCI: Testicular cancer treatment – Health professional version
●American Urological Association (AUA): Guideline for the diagnosis and treatment of early stage testicular cancer (2019, amended 2023)
●American College of Radiology (ACR): ACR Appropriateness Criteria on staging and surveillance of testicular cancer (revised 2021)
●US Preventive Services Task Force (USPSTF): Final recommendation statement on testicular cancer – Screening (2011)
●American Society of Clinical Oncology (ASCO): Clinical practice guideline on uses of serum tumor markers in adult males with germ cell tumors (2010)
Europe
●European Association of Urology (EAU): Guidelines on testicular cancer, update (2024)
●European Society for Medical Oncology (ESMO)-European Reference Network on Rare Adult Cancers (EURACAN): Testicular seminoma and non-seminoma – Clinical practice guideline for diagnosis, treatment, and follow-up (2022)
●European Cooperative Study Group for Pediatric Rare Tumors (EXPeRT)/Paediatric Rare Tumours Network - European Registry (PARTNER): Consensus recommendations for the diagnosis and therapy of sex cord stromal tumors in children and adolescents (2021)
●ESMO: Consensus conference guidelines on testicular germ cell cancer – Diagnosis, treatment, and follow-up (2018)
United Kingdom
●Consensus statement on the development of a best-practice clinical guideline for the use of bleomycin in the treatment of germ cell tumours in the UK (2018)
●National Academy of Clinical Biochemistry (NACB) Laboratory Medicine: Practice guidelines for use of tumor markers in testicular, prostate, colorectal, breast, and ovarian cancers (2008)
Australia–New Zealand
●Australia and New Zealand Urogenital and Prostate Cancer Trials Group (ANZUP): Recommendations and resources
●Healthy Male: Clinical summary guide on testicular cancer (2023)
