[Foremost tasks in the problem of trophoblastic disease]

Among the most urgent problems of trophoblastic disease are: (1) timely diagnosis which may be assured by histological examination of material obtained by cutterage from uterine cavity whenever discharge is tinged with blood; (2) obligatory determination of the marker of the disease-chorionic gonadotropin in urine; and (3) chemotherapy with due account of "factors of risk". All these problems may be solved chiefly by organizational means and, first of all, by setting up endocrinological laboratories in city districts.