Radiotherapy for persistent disease and choriocarcinoma

Women whose GTT has spread to the brain may have stereotactic radiotherapy, which gives a high dose of radiotherapy to the brain tumour. There is detailed information about stereotactic radiotherapy in the radiotherapy section of CancerHelp UK.

You may have external radiotherapy with chemotherapy to reduce symptoms caused by GTTs that have spread from the womb to other parts of the body.  But this treatment is not used very often.

Because radiotherapy is rarely used for these tumours we have not included detailed information here. The radiotherapy section of CancerHelp UK has information about radiotherapy and its possible side effects.