Gestational trophoblastic disease patient information

Find out what to expect from your appointment with our gestational trophoblastic disease service.

Before your appointment

Most women with GTD will not need to be seen at the hospital. The nurse advisor will contact you if a clinic appointment is required and an appointment will be offered within a few days, depending on urgency. Occasionally it will be an emergency situation and you may be asked to attend on the same day.

You are welcome to bring a relative or close friend with you to your appointment. You are also welcome to ask for a chaperone and we will endeavour to provide one for you. You will not be asked to fast, but you may be asked to arrive with a full bladder to enable a pelvic ultrasound scan to be done.

If you have been offered a clinic appointment we will need a detailed medical history from you. Please note down and bring with you any important medical events, dates of all your pregnancies and outcomes, contraceptive use, any fertility treatment, medications you take regularly and any other points you think the doctor needs to know about.

During your appointment

Please report to Clinic 8 reception when you arrive. You will have a blood test on arrival. You will need to take a ticket outside the blood room and wait to be called.  

Please allow a whole day for your visit, especially if having imaging and blood tests on the same day as your clinic appointment. You will see one of our specialist doctors who will take a detailed medical history and organise the necessary investigations to establish or confirm a diagnosis. The investigations are likely to include blood tests, a pelvic ultrasound and a chest x-ray. Some other scans may also be required.

After your appointment

Results are nearly always available on the day. Once your results are ready, the consultant and/or specialist nurses will see you again to discuss the results and a treatment plan.

Patient resources

Our GTD telephone advisory line can give you information and also provides advice and a results service for patients and healthcare professionals during office hours.

Phone: 020 3311 1409
Fax: 020 3313 5577
Email: ichc.hmole@nhs.net

You can contact the advisory team for test results from 09.00 to 16.00 (closed between 13.00 and 14.00), Monday through Friday. 

Patient information leaflets

• Atypical placental site nodules
• Gestational Trophoblastic disease (GTD)
• Gestational trophoblastic disease - counselling
• Life after gestational trophoblastic disease
• Molar pregnancy
• Non-molar miscarriages why you don't need follow up
• Ovarian germ cell cancer