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How do you approach the treatment of teen patients with recurrent mediastinal germ cell tumor who have failed standard therapy, radiation, and HD therapy/stem cell rescue?

Is there a role for immunotherapy, anti-angiogenesis, or TKIs? Can you use immune checkpoint inhibitors in combination with lenvatinib?
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Medical Oncology · Indiana Univ Simon Cancer Center
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The query failed to delineate whether this was seminoma or non-seminoma, but probably does not matter in this advanced stage of a heavily treated patient. Also failed to address the anatomical location of active cancer. Whether this is a teen or older patient is irrelevant.

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