Abstract

Background: Primary gastric choriocarcinoma is an extremely rare tumour, with a prevalence of 0.8% among stomach cancers. It is an aggressive disease that progresses and rapidly metastasizes with survival expectancy between 6 and 12 months without treatment. The management is controversial as it does not respond to the usual chemotherapy lines used on gastrointestinal cancer and its treatment is not standardized due to the shortage of cases on record, so it must be individualized.

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