What is a molar pregnancy?
I am curious as to what it is and if I have it by description.
Posted: 02/10/2013 by a BabyCenter Member
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Here is a synopsis from the Dana-Farber Cancer Institute: “Gestational trophoblastic tumor, a rare cancer in women, is a disease in which cancer (malignant) cells grow in the tissues that are formed following conception (the joining of sperm and egg). Gestational trophoblastic tumors start inside the uterus, the hollow, muscular, pear-shaped organ where a baby grows. This type of cancer occurs in women during the years when they are able to have children. There are two types of gestational trophoblastic tumors: hydatidiform mole and choriocarcinoma. If a patient has a hydatidiform mole (also called a molar pregnancy), the sperm and egg cells have joined without the development of a baby in the uterus. Instead, the tissue that is formed resembles grape-like cysts. Hydatidiform mole does not spread outside of the uterus to other parts of the body." http://www.mymolarpregnancy.composted 06/15/2013 by mymolarpregnancy
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