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The concept of establishing regional centers for the management of patients with gestational trophoblastic disease (GTD) evolved as a direct result of the success of the program established by Dr. Roy Hertz at the National Cancer Institute. A number of individuals trained in the field of obstetrics and gynecology emerged from the clinical fellowship program at that institution who recognized that they had both an obligation and an opportunity to create in their own academic centers the type of facility which had functioned so well on a national level for over 10 years. Decentralization, as it were, would at the same time make available this new therapeutic modality to the largest number of patients and provide an adequate source of material for expanded clinical and laboratory research and teaching programs.
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Goldstein, D.P., Berkowitz, R.S. (1984). The Role of Regional Centers for Gestational Trophoblastic Disease. In: Pattillo, R.A., Hussa, R.O. (eds) Human Trophoblast Neoplasms. Advances in Experimental Medicine and Biology, vol 176. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4684-4811-5_23
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