The Nation - News from Oct. 28, 1986

A simple drug treatment is virtually 100% effective in curing a form of reproductive cancer that is a major health hazard among women in many parts of the world, new research concluded. The disease, choriocarcinoma, is a form of cancer of the uterus that can occur after pregnancy. Although rare in the United States, it may strike one of every 200 women in less-developed countries. Dr. Stephen Curry, chief of obstetrics at New England Medical Center in Boston, planned to present the results today at the World Congress on Gestational Trophoblastic Neoplasms in Brazil.