TREATMENT OF METASTATIC TROPHOBLASTIC DISEASE WITH POOR PROGNOSIS

  • 1 January 1980
    • journal article
    • research article
    • Vol. 55  (5) , 565-570
Abstract
Fifty-one patients are presented who were treated for poor-prognosis gestational trophoblastic disease. Disease in 72% (37 of 51 patients) is currently in remission (8 mo.-10 yr). Treatment was primarily by multiagent chemotherapy, with adjunctive surgery and radiation therapy in selected patients. Unsuccessful chemotherapy prior to treatment at this center, a prolonged interval from the antecedent pregnancy to treatment and liver metastases portended a worse prognosis in these patients.