Clinical Trial: The French National Reference Centre of GTD

Study Status: Recruiting
Recruit Status: Recruiting
Study Type: Observational [Patient Registry]

Official Title: The French National Reference Centre of Gestational Trophoblastic Disease

Brief Summary:

The French Gestational Trophoblastic Disease (GTD) centre has been set up and active by registering, monitoring and treating women with GTD since november 1999. The aim is to improve the management of trophoblastic disease in France.

About 850 new cases are registered each year and 140 women treated, mostly with chemotherapy and surgery.

The center works as follow, based on a multidisciplinary approach. The policy is that patient remains followed by her local physician, but can be seen and treated in the Center at demand and that the registry is done on a voluntary basis.

Each administrative french area has a local expert team (oncologist and gynaecologist) who is able to look after the patients with the help of the national reference center physicians based in Lyon.

  • Once a doctor discovers a molar pregnancy, he contacts the center, with the agreement of his patient, for an opinion, an advice or simply to report the case.
  • The center sends to the doctor the informed consent form to be signed by the patient, a registering form and information about pathology for patient and physician, and first guidelines based on initial pathology report.

The patient remains followed by her gynecologist, who stays her first interlocutor throughout the whole process and she goes to her local laboratory for hCG monitoring;

  • A letter is sent to the initial pathology laboratory that originally carried the diagnosis of molar pregnancy to require slide sending to the pathologist referral center (9 experts with a specific pathologist national netwo

    Detailed Summary:
    Sponsor: Hospices Civils de Lyon

    Current Primary Outcome: Agreement (yes or no) between local and pathologists in case of diagnosis of trophoblastic deseases [ Time Frame: 18 months ]

    trophoblastic deseases can be partial or complete molal pregnancy, choriocarcinoma, , placental site trophoblastic tumors (PSTT), epithelioid trophoblastic tumors (ETT), atypical placental site nodule.


    Original Primary Outcome: Same as current

    Current Secondary Outcome:

    Original Secondary Outcome:

    Information By: Hospices Civils de Lyon

    Dates:
    Date Received: August 2, 2016
    Date Started: November 1999
    Date Completion: November 2029
    Last Updated: September 2, 2016
    Last Verified: August 2016