What exactly is a molar pregnancy?
YES A MOLAR PREGNANCY CAN BECOME CANCER…. I’M TRYING TO FIND OUT THE SAME THING…..WHY AND HOW??? MY 7 WEEK SCAN WAS FINE….BUT AT 12 WEEKS I HAD AN 8 WEEK OLD FETUS WITH NO HEARTBEAT. AND I ALSO WANT TO KNOW WHY!! ***EDIT*** THAT’S WHAT WE ALL THOUGHT….BUT I JUST GOT THE PATHOLOGY RESULTS OF THE TISSUE FROM THE D&C LAST WEEK AND MY DR SAID I MIGHT HAVE HAD A PARTIAL MOLAR PREGNANCY BECAUSE THEY FOUND HYROPIC MOLES…..SO I DON’T EVEN KNOW WHAT’S GOING ON!!!! NOW I HAVE TO HAVE MY HCG’S MONITORED FOR WHO KNOWS HOW LONG TIL I CAN TRY AGAIN!
A molar pregnancy — also known as hydatidiform mole — is a noncancerous (benign) tumor that develops in the uterus. A molar pregnancy occurs when the placenta develops into an abnormal mass of cysts rather than becoming a viable pregnancy. Well they wouldn’t leave them there. It’s not a cancerous thing, it’s just that the baby didn’t form right and the cells just kept growing.
Hi, If you read the following, it will give you an exact picture what is Molar Pregnancy and what measures need to be taken. 1>What is a molar pregnancy? A molar pregnancy is a rare complication of pregnancy. It happens when something goes wrong during the fertilisation process at conception, and there are abnormalities in the cells that grow to form the placenta. Molar pregnancy, sometimes called a hydatidiform mole, is part of a group of conditions called gestational trophoblastic tumours. They are usually benign (not cancerous). Even though they can spread beyond the uterus (womb), they are curable. In a normal pregnancy, the fertilised egg contains 23 chromosomes from the father and 23 from the mother. In a complete molar pregnancy, the fertilised egg has no maternal chromosomes and the chromosomes from the father’s sperm are duplicated, so you end up with two copies of chromosomes from the father and none from the mother. In this case, there’s no embryo, amniotic sac, or any norma
If your HCG levels continue to rise then there is a chance it may become cancerous and need treatment with chemo, the success rate for this type of cancer is one of the highest. If you have a ‘complete mole’ no parts of a baby (foetal tissue) are formed as part of the pregnancy. The molar tissue is usually removed with surgery. In around 5 or 8 out of 100 women who have a complete molar pregnancy the molar tissue begins to grow into the deeper tissues of the womb. They will need to have chemotherapy after the molar tissue is removed. A small number of women with a complete mole go on to develop a cancerous gestational tumour (choriocarcinoma). A choriocarcinoma is a cancer, but it is very rare and usually curable. It happens if cells that were part of a normal pregnancy or a molar pregnancy become cancerous. ‘Chorio’ refers to the word chorion, which is the outer covering (membrane) of the growing baby (foetus). Carcinoma means a cancer in the epithelial cells which cover or line a bod
