But young adults also can get them. Testicular germ cell cancers are the most common form of cancer in young men ages 15 to 30. Germ cell cancer signs and symptoms The symptoms of germ cell cancers ...

Most patients achieve a complete remission, either with chemotherapy alone or with postchemotherapy resection of germ cell cancer or teratoma. Although relapse beyond 2 years is uncommon (2%-3% of ...

A teratoma is a type of germ cell tumour that starts in your reproductive cells, like eggs and sperm. According to experts, most of the teratomas are benign but sometimes they can become malignant ...

Methods: This study included 53 patients with retroperitoneal teratoma (7 chemotherapy naïve and 46 with postchemotherapy teratoma) and 20 patients with viable postchemotherapy germ cell tumor from ...

DOI: 10.1111/joim.13778 Women with a type of ovarian cancer known as germ cell tumors have a worse prognosis than men with similar tumors (i.e., testicular cancer).