Difficulties in the diagnosis and treatment of germ cell tumors based on a clinical case

Germ cell tumors (GCT) are a group of rare malignant neoplasms. At the same time, the group of patients with this pathology is mainly young people aged 25–35 years. Taking into account the rarity of the disease and the young age of patients, there may often be difficulties in diagnostics and treatment of this malignant tumor. On the example of the described clinical case of a patient with seminomatous GCT the most frequent problems that specialists may encounter in the treatment of this pathology are presented.