A malignant cancer that develops from chorionic tissue, typically arising from a molar pregnancy or retained placental tissue.
From chorio- (Greek khoros 'membrane') + epithelio- (Greek epi 'upon' + thele 'nipple/tissue') + -oma 'tumor'. Compound medical term describing cancer of fetal membrane cells.
This is one of the few cancers that can be cured with chemotherapy—it was a breakthrough discovery that changed cancer treatment forever, showing that not all cancers are death sentences.
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