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, ...

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).

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 ...