“…First, there is the existence of classical germline tumors seen in patients with seminomas, ovarian tumors, yolk sac tumors, mediastinal or brain germ cell tumors, teratomas, and teratocarcinomas [60,61]. Second, several types of cancer cells express cancer testis (C/T) antigens (~40 identified), which are encoded by genes that are normally expressed only in the human germline but are also often expressed unexpectedly in various non-gonadal tumor types (e.g., gastric, lung, liver, and bladder carcinomas) [62,63].…”