Choriocarcinoma (medical condition): Rare cancer of the placenta.
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Choriocarcinoma: A rare cancer in women of childbearing age in which cancer cells grow in the tissues that are formed in the uterus after conception. Also called gestational trophoblastic disease, gestational trophoblastic neoplasia, gestational trophoblastic tumor, or molar pregnancy.
Source: National Institute of Health
Choriocarcinoma: An aggressive malignant tumor arising from trophoblastic cells. The vast majority of cases arise in the uterus and represent gestational choriocarcinomas that derive from placental trophoblastic cells. Approximately half of the cases develop from a complete hydatidiform mole. A minority of cases arise in the testis or the ovaries. There is often marked elevation of human chorionic gonadotropin (hCG) in the blood. Choriocarcinomas disseminate rapidly through the hematogenous route; the lungs are most frequently affected. --2004
Source: Diseases Database
Choriocarcinoma: malignant metastatic form of trophoblastic tumors, contains sheets of undifferentiated cytotrophoblasts and syncytiotrophoblasts; characterized by the large amounts of chorionic gonadotropin produced; tissue origins can be placental (fetal) or non-placental.
Source: CRISP
Choriocarcinoma: A malignant metastatic form of trophoblastic tumors. Unlike the HYDATIDIFORM MOLE, choriocarcinoma contains no CHORIONIC VILLI but rather sheets of undifferentiated cytotrophoblasts and syncytiotrophoblasts (TROPHOBLASTS). It is characterized by the large amounts of CHORIONIC GONADOTROPIN produced. Tissue origins can be determined by DNA analyses: placental (fetal) origin or non-placental origin (CHORIOCARCINOMA, NON-GESTATIONAL).
Source: MeSH 2007
Choriocarcinoma is listed as a "rare disease" by the Office of
Rare Diseases (ORD) of the National Institutes of Health
(NIH). This means that Choriocarcinoma, or a subtype of Choriocarcinoma,
affects less than 200,000 people in the US population.
Source - National Institutes of Health (NIH)
Choriocarcinoma (medical condition): See Choriocarcinoma (disease information).
»Introduction: Choriocarcinoma
»Symptoms of Choriocarcinoma
»Causes of Choriocarcinoma
»Treatments for Choriocarcinoma
Choriocarcinoma: Choriocarcinoma is listed as a type of (or associated with) the following medical conditions in our database:
These medical disease topics may be related to Choriocarcinoma:
Source: Diseases Database
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Source - CRISP
Source: CRISP
The following list attempts to classify Choriocarcinoma into categories where each line is subset of the next.
Source: Diseases Database
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