Gestational choriocarcinoma

Gestational choriocarcinoma is a malignant trophoblastic tumour arising from any gestational event during pregnancy in the reproductive female.

When the tumor develops during pregnancy, it is called gestational choriocarcinoma. Gestational choriocarcinoma most often occurs in pregnant females that are 15 to19 years of age.

Gestational choriocarcinoma - a rapidly spreading type of cancer that can travel to any part of the body via the blood vessels or lymphatic system.
Diagnosis may be difficult ...

peptide (PTHRP—from squamous cell lung cancer, head and neck cancer, bladder cancer), calcitonin (from breast cancer, small cell lung cancer, and medullary thyroid carcinoma), and thyroid-stimulating hormone (from gestational choriocarcinoma).

See also: Carcinoma, Choriocarcinoma, Pregnancy, Symptom, Cancer