MSK surgeons do more than 200 testicular procedures each year. Surgery may be the only treatment you need for early-stage germ cell tumors that have not spread beyond the testicle. After surgery, you ...

Testicular germ cell tumors are on the rise in the US. The incidence among Hispanic men now surpasses that of non-Hispanic White men, who have historically had the highest incidence. The incidence ...

The latter two factors are also associated with testicular germ cell cancer. Daling and colleagues questioned 369 men (ages 18–44 years) with testicular germ cell cancer and 979 age-matched ...

is the most common testicular germ cell tumor and is characterized by its similarity to primordial germ cells (PGCs), the precursor to sperm cells that form early in embryonic development.

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 ...

Testes are the 2 male glands that make sperm and the male hormone testosterone. Germ cell cancers most often start in young children and adolescents. But young adults also can get them. Testicular ...

There is also carcinoma in situ of the testis (CIS), which is the precursor of testicular germ-cell tumours. Most cancers tend to have precursor cancer cells that can become invasive but this is ...

Established risk factors for testicular cancer include a family history of the disease, undescended testes and abnormal testicular development. The disease is thought to begin in the womb, when some ...

This is done to preserve testicular stem cells, the precursors of sperm cells. Chemotherapy and radiation therapy can destroy these cells, leading to infertility later in life. Prepubescent boys ...