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 ...

Elena was diagnosed with ovarian germ cell cancer at just the age of 17. She was in her first year of studying medicine at ...

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 ...

Evaluating Paediatric Oncology Operative Reports as an Impetus for Synoptic Reports,” published in the February 2025 issue of Pediatrics by Petrushkevich et al. This study aims to audit pediatric ...

Gene mutations associated with cancer can be passed on through the germ line (i.e., inherited from one's parents), or they can be acquired through somatic mutations. It takes time for a cell to ...

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 ...

The type of cancer you have depends on the type of cell the cancer starts in. Most testicular cancers develop in germ cells. These are the cells that make sperm. They are also called germ cell tumours ...

Researchers reveal that gut microbiota influence the effectiveness of immune checkpoint inhibitors (ICIs) in cancer treatment ...