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Germ Cell Tumors: the most common type (over 9 out of 10 cases) of testicular cancer, germ cell tumors begin in the cells that make sperm. Most germ cell cancers begin as carcinoma in situ (CIS), a cancer that is not invasive (has not spread from where it started). Germ cell cancers are divided into two types: seminomas and nonseminomas.