Chemotherapy is the main treatment of choriocarcinoma, and for most women this involves relatively gentle treatment over a few months. However about 1 in 10 women will need much more intensive chemotherapy. Despite this, once the cancer has been successfully treated most women, even those who have had the intensive treatment, can go on to have normal pregnancies in the future.

Careful studies have shown that there is absolutely no evidence that women who go on to become pregnant after chemotherapy for choriocarcinoma have any greater risk than other women of having babies with birth defects, and their children grow up quite normally with no problems. This is true even for those women who have become pregnant after very intensive chemotherapy.

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