Germ cell tumors (GCTs) in the central nervous system ... particularly in cases of growing teratoma syndrome (GTS). This information is crucial for developing future clinical trials and ...

A fetus is made from a sperm cell and an egg cell. Germ cell tumors (GCTs) are also known as germ cell cancer. Germ cells later turn into either sperm in the testicles or eggs in the ovaries. Sex cord ...

Surgery is the first step in most treatment plans and is the treatment for early-stage testicular cancer. MSK surgeons do more than 200 testicular procedures each year. Surgery may be the only ...

According to the latest patient statistics, the incidence of testicular germ cell tumors is on the rise in the US, especially among Hispanic men.

Tumor cells circulating in the blood are the germ cells of breast cancer metastases. They are very rare and have not been propagated in the culture dish until now, which made research into therapy ...

A pericardial teratoma is a tumor but differs from a cancer. Still, it is deadly. “It is a tumor that is growing wildly ...

known as a teratoma, develops. This growth contains different types of somatic cells and is similar to embryonic tumors with the formation of the three “germ layers” from which different tissue types ...

Tumor suppressor genes act as “brakes” to stop cells before they can travel down the road to cancer. A loss of function mutation in these genes can be disastrous. Like all genes, tumor ...