[The treatment of refractory choriocarcinoma]

The choriocarcinoma was one of the most curable malignant neoplasms. This is chiefly because the effective chemotherapy was introduced and the sensitivity of hCG was improved. But about 10-20% cases with choriocarcinoma were drug resistant or recurrent cases. And now, the treatment of these refractory choriocarcinomas were one of the most important clinical problems. We describe a new combination chemotherapy for these refractory choriocarcinomas in this paper. This high dose 5-FU + Act-D protocol was effective for drug resistant cases with MEA protocol.