The French National Reference Centre of GTD (French GTDC)

The French National Reference Centre of Gestational Trophoblastic Disease

The French Gestational Trophoblastic Disease (GTD) centre has been set up and active by registering, monitoring and treating women with GTD since november 1999. The aim is to improve the management of trophoblastic disease in France.

About 850 new cases are registered each year and 140 women treated, mostly with chemotherapy and surgery.

The center works as follow, based on a multidisciplinary approach. The policy is that patient remains followed by her local physician, but can be seen and treated in the Center at demand and that the registry is done on a voluntary basis.

Each administrative french area has a local expert team (oncologist and gynaecologist) who is able to look after the patients with the help of the national reference center physicians based in Lyon.

• Once a doctor discovers a molar pregnancy, he contacts the center, with the agreement of his patient, for an opinion, an advice or simply to report the case.
• The center sends to the doctor the informed consent form to be signed by the patient, a registering form and information about pathology for patient and physician, and first guidelines based on initial pathology report.

The patient remains followed by her gynecologist, who stays her first interlocutor throughout the whole process and she goes to her local laboratory for hCG monitoring;

• A letter is sent to the initial pathology laboratory that originally carried the diagnosis of molar pregnancy to require slide sending to the pathologist referral center (9 experts with a specific pathologist national network) that centrally review initial diagnosis.
• In the mean time, the data manager collects weekly hCG values to establish a follow-up chart. The physician is regularly informed by mail of the hCG evolution.
• The local physician is contacted in case of modification of the diagnosis by the pathologist expert. The center informs him about length and monitoring methodology.
• Emails or letters are sent at each step of the management (at inclusion, at hCG negativation, and at the end of hCG follow-up).
• In case of abnormal hCG evolution (raise, plateauing or positivity at 6 months,) or if a neoplasia is anatomopathologically diagnosed (choriocarcinoma, PSTT or ETT), physician is immediately contacted by phone or email by referent gynaecologist. A complete work up including pelvic US with Doppler, pelvic MRI, thoraco-abdominal CT-scan with chest radiography if pulmonary nodules are present and brain MRI, is planned to determine the adequate treatment.

Very briefly, based on imaging results, FIGO stade and score are calculated to determine the risk. In case of low-risk, a monochemotherapy is settled, while a polychemotherapy is started in case of high-risk disease.

The investigators have developped specific expertise at key levels of diagnosis, management, follow-up, fertility preservation and treatment.

Assignments :

• Registration and monitoring post diagnosis of complete or partial molar pregnancy, choriocarcinoma,PSTT, ETT, atypical placental site nodules
• Histopathological analysis and genetics services
• Measurement of human chorionic gonadotrophin (hCG) isoforms
• Complex gynaecological surgery

Study Overview

• Status: Recruiting
• Conditions: Hydatidiform Mole; Gestational Trophoblastic Disease; Neoplasm, Trophoblastic; Hydatidiform Mole, Invasive

• Study Type: Observational
• Enrollment (Anticipated): 25500

Contacts and Locations

• Study Contact: Name: François Golfier, Pr; Phone Number: +33 (0)4 78 86 66 78; Email: francois.golfier@chu-lyon.fr
• Study Contact Backup: Name: Touria Hajri; Phone Number: +33 (0)4 78 86 66 78; Email: touria.hajri@chu-lyon.fr

Study Locations

• France
  • Pierre-Bénite, France, 69495
    • Recruiting
    • Centre des Maladies Trophoblastiques Centre Hospitalier Lyon Sud-Bâtiment 3B-2ème étage, 165 Chemin du Grand Revoyet
    • Contact: François Golfier, Pr; Phone Number: +33 (0)4 78 86 66 78; Email: francois.golfier@chu-lyon.fr
    • Contact: Touria Hajri; Phone Number: +33 (0)4 78 86 66 78; Email: touria.hajri@chu-lyon.fr

Participation Criteria

Eligibility Criteria

• Ages Eligible for Study: Child; Adult; Older Adult
• Accepts Healthy Volunteers: No
• Genders Eligible for Study: Female

• Sampling Method: Non-Probability Sample

Study Population

Patient diagnosed with trophoblastic disease

Description

Inclusion Criteria:

• Patients are eligible if they have a histologically proven trophoblastic disease, or a diagnosis of gestational trophoblastic neoplasia done on an abnormal evolution of hCG

Exclusion Criteria:

• none

Study Plan

How is the study designed?

Design Details

• Observational Models: Cohort
• Time Perspectives: Prospective

Number of groups / cohorts

5

Cohorts and Interventions

Group / Cohort
Complete Hydatidiform mole and Partial Hydatidiform mole
Invasive mole
Choriocarcinoma
Post-molar neoplasia
Placental Site Trophoblastic and Epithelioid Tumor

What is the study measuring?

Primary Outcome Measures

Outcome Measure	Measure Description	Time Frame
Agreement (yes or no) between local and pathologists in case of diagnosis of trophoblastic deseases	trophoblastic deseases can be partial or complete molal pregnancy, choriocarcinoma, , placental site trophoblastic tumors (PSTT), epithelioid trophoblastic tumors (ETT), atypical placental site nodule.	18 months

Collaborators and Investigators

• Sponsor: Hospices Civils de Lyon
• Investigators: Principal Investigator: François Golfier, Pr, Centre National de Référence des maladies trophoblastiques Centre Hospitalier Lyon Sud - Hospices Civils de Lyon

Publications and helpful links

Helpful Links

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Study record dates

Study Major Dates

• Study Start: November 1, 1999
• Primary Completion (Anticipated): November 1, 2029
• Study Completion (Anticipated): November 1, 2029

Study Registration Dates

• First Submitted: August 2, 2016
• First Submitted That Met QC Criteria: September 2, 2016
• First Posted (Estimate): September 8, 2016

Study Record Updates

• Last Update Posted (Estimate): September 8, 2016
• Last Update Submitted That Met QC Criteria: September 2, 2016
• Last Verified: August 1, 2016

More Information

Terms related to this study

• Keywords: Complete Hydatidiform mole; Partial Hydatidiform mole; Invasive mole; Choriocarcinoma; Post-molar neoplasia; Placental Site Trophoblastic Tumor (PSTT); Epithelioid Trophoblastic Tumor (ETT); hCG follow-up
• Additional Relevant MeSH Terms: Neoplasms by Histologic Type; Neoplasms; Neoplasms, Germ Cell and Embryonal; Pregnancy Complications; Pregnancy Complications, Neoplastic; Trophoblastic Neoplasms; Gestational Trophoblastic Disease; Hydatidiform Mole; Hydatidiform Mole, Invasive
• Other Study ID Numbers: 69HCL16_0519