High-risk metastatic gestational trophoblastic disease: further stratification into two clinical entities

Gynecol Oncol. 1989 Jul;34(1):54-6. doi: 10.1016/0090-8258(89)90106-6.

Abstract

Forty-two of sixty-seven patients (62.7%) treated for high-risk metastatic trophoblastic disease achieved and maintained complete remissions. The survival rate was significantly improved in those patients with scores lower than 8 according to a modification of the World Health Organization (WHO) prognostic scoring system. A low score was associated with a higher probability of response to single-agent therapy, although the difference was not statistically significant. The score, however, was significantly associated with response to multiagent chemotherapy with methotrexate, actinomycin D, and cyclophosphamide (P = 0.0004). Therefore, future trials of new combinations of chemotherapy in high-risk patients should be stratified according to the patients' prognostic scores.

MeSH terms

  • Female
  • Humans
  • Pregnancy
  • Prognosis
  • Risk Factors
  • Trophoblastic Neoplasms / drug therapy*
  • Trophoblastic Neoplasms / mortality
  • Uterine Neoplasms / drug therapy*
  • Uterine Neoplasms / mortality