Treatment of Recurrent Childhood Malignant Extracranial Germ Cell Tumors

For information about the treatments listed below, see the Treatment Option Overview section.

Treatment of recurrent childhood extracranial germ cell tumors may include the following:

• Surgery.
• Chemotherapy given before or after surgery, for most malignant extracranial germ cell tumors including immature teratomas, malignant testicular germ cell tumors, and malignant ovarian germ cell tumors.
• Chemotherapy for recurrent malignant testicular germ cell tumors and recurrent nongerminomas of the ovary that were stage I at diagnosis.
• High-dose chemotherapy and stem cell transplant.
• Radiation therapy followed by surgery to remove cancer that has spread to the brain.

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