Several years later at the National Cancer Institute, Roy Hertz and Min Chiu Li then demonstrated complete remission in women with choriocarcinoma and chorioadenoma in 1956, discovering that methotrexate alone could cure choriocarcinoma ( 1958 ), a germ-cell malignancy that originates in trophoblastic cells of the placenta.
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There are several different types of GTD . Hydatidiform moles are benign in most cases, but sometimes may develop into invasive moles, or, in rare cases, into choriocarcinoma, which is likely to spread quickly, but which is very sensitive to chemotherapy, and has a very good prognosis.
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:: In your link jayron it says " Primary pulmonary choriocarcinoma is an extremely rare tumor in men, with 13 cases reported in the literature . " Does this mean that men using urine pregnancy tests can only test for this specific condition ? there have only been 13 reported cases ? talk ) 01 : 41, 10 December 2016 ( UTC)
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Persistent elevation of serum hCG levels after a non molar pregnancy ( i . e ., normal pregnancy [ term pregnancy ], or preterm pregnancy, or ectopic pregnancy [ pregnancy taking place in the wrong place, usually in the fallopian tube ], or abortion ) always indicate persistent GTD ( very frequently due to choriocarcinoma or placental site trophoblastic tumour ), but this is not common, because treatment mostly is successful.
