Human chorionic gonadotropin

Japanese: human chorionic gonadotropin(英語表記)humanchorionicgonadotropin
Human chorionic gonadotropin

…Very rarely, choriocarcinoma may develop as a teratoma in the ovaries or testicles (in this case in males) unrelated to pregnancy (this is called teratocarcinoma). Choriocarcinoma produces the same hormone (chorionic gonadotropin, human chorionic gonadotropin, hCG) as in normal pregnancy, so hCG measurement is used as an indicator of tumor progression. It occurs frequently in Asia, including Japan, and the incidence rate in Japan was 0.22 per 100,000 women (1980). …

*Some of the terminology that mentions "human chorionic gonadotropin" is listed below.

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Japanese:

…ごくまれに,妊娠と関係なく卵巣や睾丸(この場合は男子に)に奇形腫として絨毛癌が発生することがある(これを奇形腫性絨毛癌という)。絨毛癌は正常妊娠時におけると同様のホルモン(絨毛性ゴナドトロピン,human chorionic gonadotropin,hCG)を産生するので,腫瘍の病勢の指標としてhCG測定が用いられる。日本を含むアジア地域で発生頻度が高く,日本での女性人口10万当りの罹患率は0.22(1980)である。…

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