choriocarcinoma

Choriocarcinoma following term pregnancy is very rare (1/50,000) and is associated with a poor prognosis and a mortality rate of 33-40% (2).

The cause of death was listed as "[p]robable choriocarcinoma." Theodore Hytko, individually and as the administrator of the decedent's estate, sued Nurse Szary, the physicians and OB/GYN alleging, among other things, that Nurse Szary was negligent in failing to diagnose the decedent's choriocarcinoma and that the physicians failed to properly collaborate with Nurse Szary in accordance with certain provisions of the Education Law of New York.

He pointed out that the initiation of fetal pancreatic function coincided with a reduction in the invasiveness of trophoblast, which otherwise might progress to clinical cancer (that is, choriocarcinoma).

Armstrong had contained a component of malignant placental tissue (choriocarcinoma).

From today's vantage point, a rapid cure for ALS or certain cancers appears highly unlikely, yet the history of modern medicine is replete with examples of illnesses (type I diabetes, acute lymphoblastic leukaemia, choriocarcinoma) that have rapidly gone from universally fatal to highly manageable.

The 27-year-old, of Fir Tree Avenue, Lime Tree Park, Coventry, received treatment at the oncology ward while suffering from choriocarcinoma, a rare form of cancer.

In one in 65,000 pregnancies, cancerous cells, known as choriocarcinoma, develop there.

The 2 most aggressively transmitted types of cancer were choriocarcinoma, which arises from fetal tissue, and melanoma, a potentially life-threatening form of skin cancer.

These include most cases of Hodgkin's disease, acute lymphocytic leukemia, and testicular cancer, as well as certain rare cancers such as Burkitt's lymphoma, choriocarcinoma, and lymphosarcoma.

Just weeks after she had her first child Anna Panter was diagnosed with choriocarcinoma, a rare cancer that only occurs in one out of 50,000 pregnancies.

Gestational trophoblastic tumors include 3 well-defined pathologic entities: gestational choriocarcinoma, placental site trophoblastic tumor (PSTT), and epithelioid trophoblastic tumor (ETT).