Good Prognosis Metastatic Gestational Trophoblastic Tumors
Treatment may be one of the following:
- Chemotherapy.
- Surgery to remove the uterus (hysterectomy) followed by chemotherapy.
- Chemotherapy followed by hysterectomy if cancer remains following chemotherapy.
Check for U.S. clinical trials from NCI's list of cancer clinical trials that are now accepting patients with good prognosis metastatic gestational trophoblastic tumor. For more specific results, refine the search by using other search features, such as the location of the trial, the type of treatment, or the name of the drug. General information about clinical trials is available from the NCI Web site.
Understanding Cervical Cancer -- Prevention
Since infection with human papillomavirus (HPV) is the most important risk factor for cervical cancer and precancers, it is important to avoid genital HPV infection. This may mean delaying sex, limiting the number of sex partners, and avoiding a sex partner who has had several other partners. Condoms are important to prevent the spread of sexually transmitted diseases, but they can't give full protection against HPV since there may be skin to skin contact of exposed areas which can transmit the virus...
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