Why is chemotherapy used for hydatidiform mole?

Why is chemotherapy used for hydatidiform mole?

Hydatidiform mole requires chemotherapy because chemotherapy helps promote recovery, has good effects, and can prevent the disease from worsening.

1. Promote recovery: Most of the patients with hydatidiform mole who need chemotherapy are in serious condition. For example, if there is a tendency for malignant change, the patients who must undergo chemotherapy for hydatidiform mole are mainly over 40 years old, or have obvious headaches and vomiting blood, or have purple-blue nodules in the vagina. They should receive chemotherapy as soon as possible, otherwise the disease cannot be controlled.

2. Better effect: Why do patients with hydatidiform mole need chemotherapy? Because chemotherapy can effectively kill tumor cells and is not easy to cause harm to the human body. However, chemotherapy will kill tumor cells and will also directly kill all normal cells. Therefore, you also need to pay attention to your life during this process. Whether you need to receive chemotherapy must also be based on your actual personal situation. Generally, doctors will make the correct judgment. If the situation is more serious, chemotherapy can only be used to control the disease.

3. Avoid worsening of the condition: If a hydatidiform mole occurs, it needs to be treated as soon as possible, otherwise it may undergo malignant changes, which may easily cause endometrial cancer or sepsis. After the curettage, many doctors will ask patients to undergo chemotherapy for the sake of insurance. Under normal circumstances, the HCG value of the blood will drop directly, and it will not drop to normal until about 3 months. If it drops slowly or continues to rise significantly, it may be a persistent hydatidiform mole or a malignant hydatidiform mole, which requires further chemotherapy.