Gestational Choriocarcinoma

Gestational choriocarcinoma is a malignant trophoblastic tumour arising from any gestational event during pregnancy in the reproductive female. Women with gestational choriocarcinoma may present with abnormal vaginal bleeding, persistent markedly elevated βhCG, or a history of prior pregnancy. Most patients develop gestational choriocarcinoma shortly after gestational anomalies, but pathology may occur after a long latency of years. It can or cannot happen when pregnancy is occurring. Often, it happens after a growth of some sort in the womb (pregnancy, tumor, mole, cyst)