Treatment
Most treatments involve some combination of surgery and chemotherapy. Treatment with cisplatin, etoposide, and bleomycin has been described.
Before modern chemotherapy, this type of neoplasm was highly lethal, but the prognosis has significantly improved since.
When treated promptly with surgery and chemotherapy, death from endodermal sinus tumors is exceedingly rare.
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