Treatment Options for Recurrent 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:

• Chemotherapy with or without radiation therapy.

Treatment of other ovarian germ cell tumors may include the following:

• Chemotherapy.
• Surgery with or without chemotherapy.
• A clinical trial of high-dose chemotherapy followed by bone marrow transplant.
• 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 recurrent 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. General information about clinical trials is available from the NCI Web site.