Ovarian Germ Cell Tumors Treatment (PDQ®): Treatment - Patient Information [NCI]-Treatment Options B
Ovarian Germ Cell Tumors Treatment (PDQ®): Treatment - Patient Information [NCI]-Treatment Options By Stage
Stage I Ovarian Germ Cell Tumors
Treatment depends on whether the tumor is a dysgerminoma or another type of ovarian germ cell tumor.
Patrick Dempsey: Cancer Caregiver
A decade before Grey’s Anatomy was even imagined, Patrick Dempsey -- the actor who catapulted to fame as “Dr. McDreamy” in the hit medical drama -- was already working on his bedside manner. No, he wasn’t preparing for a part. He had traveled back to rural Maine, where he’d been raised, to help his mother, Amanda, take on the fight of her life: a second bout with ovarian cancer.Her cancer, first caught in stage IV in 1996, returned in 1999, and Dempsey and his family were there to give her crucial...
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Treatment of dysgerminoma may include the following:
Treatment of other ovarian germ cell tumors may be either:
Check for U.S. clinical trials from NCI's list of cancer clinical trials that are now accepting patients with stage I ovarian germ cell tumor. For more specific results, refine the search by using other search features, such as the location of the trial, the type of treatment, or the name of the drug. Talk with your doctor about clinical trials that may be right for you. General information about clinical trials is available from the NCI Web site.
Stage II Ovarian Germ Cell Tumors
Treatment depends on whether the tumor is a dysgerminoma or another type of ovarian germ cell tumor.
Treatment of dysgerminoma may be either:
Treatment of other ovarian germ cell tumors may include the following:
Check for U.S. clinical trials from NCI's list of cancer clinical trials that are now accepting patients with stage II ovarian germ cell tumor. For more specific results, refine the search by using other search features, such as the location of the trial, the type of treatment, or the name of the drug. Talk with your doctor about clinical trials that may be right for you. General information about clinical trials is available from the NCI Web site.
Stage III Ovarian Germ Cell Tumors
Treatment depends on whether the tumor is a dysgerminoma or another type of ovarian germ cell tumor.
Treatment depends on whether the tumor is a dysgerminoma or another type of ovarian germ cell tumor.
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Treatment of dysgerminoma may include the following:
- Unilateral salpingo-oophorectomy with or without lymphangiography or CT scan.
- Unilateral salpingo-oophorectomy followed by observation.
- Unilateral salpingo-oophorectomy followed by radiation therapy.
- Unilateral salpingo-oophorectomy followed by chemotherapy.
Treatment of other ovarian germ cell tumors may be either:
- unilateral salpingo-oophorectomy followed by careful observation; or
- unilateral salpingo-oophorectomy, sometimes followed by combination chemotherapy.
Check for U.S. clinical trials from NCI's list of cancer clinical trials that are now accepting patients with stage I ovarian germ cell tumor. For more specific results, refine the search by using other search features, such as the location of the trial, the type of treatment, or the name of the drug. Talk with your doctor about clinical trials that may be right for you. General information about clinical trials is available from the NCI Web site.
Stage II Ovarian Germ Cell Tumors
Treatment depends on whether the tumor is a dysgerminoma or another type of ovarian germ cell tumor.
Treatment of dysgerminoma may be either:
- total abdominal hysterectomy and bilateral salpingo-oophorectomy followed by radiation therapy or combination chemotherapy; or
- unilateral salpingo-oophorectomy followed by chemotherapy.
Treatment of other ovarian germ cell tumors may include the following:
- Unilateral salpingo-oophorectomy followed by combination chemotherapy.
- Second-look laparotomy (surgery done after primary treatment to see if tumor cells remain).
- A clinical trial of a new treatment.
Check for U.S. clinical trials from NCI's list of cancer clinical trials that are now accepting patients with stage II ovarian germ cell tumor. For more specific results, refine the search by using other search features, such as the location of the trial, the type of treatment, or the name of the drug. Talk with your doctor about clinical trials that may be right for you. General information about clinical trials is available from the NCI Web site.
Stage III Ovarian Germ Cell Tumors
Treatment depends on whether the tumor is a dysgerminoma or another type of ovarian germ cell tumor.
