When the baby from Murfreesboro started showing cold symptoms and teething issues in late December, his mom, Jessica Chambers ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...