GESTATIONAL
TROPHOBLASTIC DISEASE
377. Hon DONNA FARAGHER to the Leader of the House
representing Minister for Health:
I refer to the Department of Health
and gestational trophoblastic disease.
(1) In 2020 and 2021, how many
women were diagnosed with this disease?
(2) Can the
minister advise whether a gestational trophoblastic disease registry currently
exists in Western Australia?
(3) If no to (2),
please advise what specific treatment, monitoring and management programs are
currently available to women who have been diagnosed with this disease, and
include details on which facilities these services can be accessed from?
Hon SUE
ELLERY replied:
I thank the honourable member for
some notice of the question. I am going to do my best to pronounce the words I am
required to say. I apologise to those people for whom this is a serious issue
if I cannot say them properly.
(1) The Women and
Newborn Health Service would need to undertake a retrospective audit to provide
these numbers and would require additional notice and time to do this.
�(2) No.
(3) King Edward
Memorial Hospital for Women clinical practice guidelines on pregnancy care are
followed. Following discharge, the patient's
general practitioner is informed. Follow-up is provided either by the GP
or at King Edward Memorial Hospital outpatient clinic and counselling is
provided to the patient. For each pregnancy after diagnosis, the patient's
beta human chorionic gonadotropin tests are performed every six weeks.