ON THIS PAGE: You will read about your medical care after treatment for gestational trophoblastic disease (GTD) is completed and why this follow-up care is important. Use the menu to see other pages.

Care for people diagnosed with GTD does not end when active treatment has finished. Your health care team will continue to check that the tumor has not come back, manage any side effects, and monitor your overall health. This is called follow-up care.

ON THIS PAGE: You will find a list of common tests, procedures, and scans that doctors use to find the cause of a medical problem. Use the menu to see other pages.

Doctors use many tests to find, or diagnose, a tumor. They also do tests to learn if it is cancerous and, if so, if it has spread to another part of the body from where it started. If the cancer has spread, it is called metastasis. Doctors may also do tests to learn which treatments could work best.

ON THIS PAGE: You will find out more about the changes and medical problems that can be a sign of gestational trophoblastic disease (GTD). Use the menu to see other pages.