Teratoma medical therapy

Editor-In-Chief: C. Michael Gibson, M.S., M.D. [1]

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Chemotherapy

For malignant teratomas, usually, surgery is followed by chemotherapy.

Teratomas that are in surgically inaccessible locations, or are very complex, or are likely to be malignant (due to late discovery and/or treatment) sometimes are treated first with chemotherapy.