Due to the small number of childhood extracranial germ cell tumors and the effectiveness of treatment, the number of patients who have tumors that return is small. Treatment for patients with recurrent germ cell tumor will usually be chemotherapy.

Check for U.S. clinical trials from NCI's PDQ Cancer Clinical Trials Registry that are now accepting patients with recurrent childhood malignant germ cell tumor.

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