Treatment depends on whether the tumor is dysgerminoma or another type of germ cell tumor.

Treatment of dysgerminoma may be:

• Chemotherapy with or without radiation therapy.

Treatment of other 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 new treatment options.

This summary section refers to specific treatments under study in clinical trials, but it may not mention every new treatment being studied. Information about ongoing clinical trials is available from the NCI Web site.

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

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