Where this information about gestational trophoblastic tumours comes from

All our information is checked by cancer specialists and surgeons who specialise in treating cancer. The names of our specialist reviewers are at the end of this list. We also try to find patients to review all our sections. If you have had a gestational trophoblastic tumour, live in the UK and would like to become a patient reviewer, you can write to us by clicking on contact us.

International Society for the study of Trophoblastic Disease (ISSTD) website - www.isstd.org/isstd/home.html - viewed January 2011

Gestational Trophoblastic Disease - a guide to management practices at Weston Park Hospital
www.chorio.group.shef.ac.uk/tdci/intro.html - viewed January 2011

Charing Cross Hospital (CXH) Trophoblast Disease Clinic Guide
www.hmole-chorio.org.uk/clinicians_info.html - viewed January 2011

Gestational Trophoblastic Disease 
3rd edition (April 2009)
Edited by B W Hancock, M J Seckl, R S Berkowitz and L A Cole

Cancer and its management (6th edition)
Tobias A and Hochhauser D
Wiley-Blackwell, 2010
ISBN: 9781405170154

Cancer: Principles & Practice of Oncology (8th Edition) Gestational Trophoblastic Tumours chapter 
De Vita, V.T., Hellman, S. and Rosenberg S.A.
Lippincott, Williams and Wilkins, 2008
ISBN: 9780781772075

The Management of Gestational Trophoblastic Disease (3rd edition)
Royal College of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists
Guideline No 38, February 2010

Diagnostic problems with Trophoblastic Lesions. Deavers et al, October 11, 2007. Archives of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine: Vol. 132, No. 2, pp 168-174.

First line chemotherapy in low risk gestational trophoblastic neoplasia. Alazzam M, Tidy J, Hancock BW, Osborne R. Cochrane Database of Systematic Reviews, 2009.

Practical issues in the management of low-risk gestational trophoblast tumours. Savage P, Seckl M and Short D. Journal of reproductive medicine, 2008 Oct; 53 (10): p774-80.

Treatment of metastatic gestational trophoblastic neoplasia. El-Helw LM, Hancock BW. Lancet Oncology, 2007. Aug;8(8):715-24

Gestational trophoblastic disease. Seckl M, Sebire N and Berkowitz R. The Lancet, 2010. Vol 376: 717-729

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