Steinar Tretli

TL;DR: The data indicate that environmental influences on testicular cancer are strong, exposure to causal factors mostly takes place early in life, shows substantial geographical variation, and increases over time, so that the age‐standardized incidence doubles every 15 to 25 years.

TL;DR: The increasing trend in testicular cancer risk observed for these six populations follows a birth cohort pattern and this distinct risk pattern provides a framework for the identification of specific etiologic factors.

TL;DR: In addition to patient and tumor characteristics (T4 tumors), intraoperative bowel perforation and tumor involvement of the circumferential margin were identified as significant prognostic factors, which were more common in the lower rectum, explaining the inferior prognosis for tumors in this region.

TL;DR: It is suggested that a high level of vitamin D3 at the time of diagnosis, and thus, during cancer treatment, may improve prognosis of the three cancer types studied.

TL;DR: In all age‐groups the tallest women were found to have the highest risk for both morbidity and mortality, but it was a risk factor only in the post‐menopausal age‐ groups in the case of morbidity.