Treatment for childhood extragonadal malignant germ cell tumor depends on the size and location of the tumor. Treatment for smaller tumors will be surgery to remove the tumor followed by chemotherapy. Treatment for larger tumors will be a biopsy (a surgical procedure to remove a small portion of the tumor) followed by chemotherapy to reduce the size of the tumor, possibly followed by surgery to remove any remaining tumor.

Check for U.S. clinical trials from NCI's PDQ Cancer Clinical Trials Registry that are now accepting patients with childhood extragonadal 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. General information about clinical trials is available from the NCI Web site.

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