Germ cells and sex cord stromal cells form when a fetus (baby) is developing. 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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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

Kate Middleton, the Princess of Wales, announced last week that she was in remission from cancer. Since she never disclosed ...

Germ cell brain tumors are rare brain tumors that account for 2–3% of all primary intracranial tumors. They develop in the pineal or suprasellar region of the brain.

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 ...

Two weeks after a human egg is fertilized, primordial germ cells (PGCs), which develop into sperm and eggs, are formed. In six to 10 weeks after fertilization, PGCs differentiate into pro ...

The testicles are made up of different types of cells. 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 ...