If you just found out that you or your child has a germ cell tumor, you may have a lot of questions about what it means and what comes next. There are many kinds of germ cell tumors, and only some ...

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 ...

But women of any age can get them. Most tumors that start in germ cells are benign. There are several subtypes of germ cell carcinomas, and tumors can also be a mix of more than one subtype.

Chorionic carcinoma components within malignant germ cell tumours prove also to be negative for N-cadherin expression (Figure 4E-F).