The management of granulosa-cell tumors of the ovary based on long-term follow up.

Abstract

The results of treatment in 130 cases of GCT of the ovary treated in the Institute of Oncology in Warsaw and followed up from 5 to 40 years were analysed with respect to the methods of therapy and age of the patients. The highest 5-year survival rate (86%) was obtained by combination of radical surgery with external irradiation. Such treatment also resulted in the lowest percentage of early and late failures of the treatment (17%). Conservative surgery, applied in the Ist stage of GCT resulted in 69% of 5-year survivals and gave young women a chance of procreation; however, the majority (69%) of patients who underwent this treatment sooner or later developed a recurrence leading, in consequence, to death.

• Authors: Z Kietlińska, K Pietrzak, M Drabik
• Journal: European journal of gynaecological oncology (Eur J Gynaecol Oncol) Vol. 14 Suppl Pg. 118-27 ( 1993) ISSN: 0392-2936 [Print] Singapore
• PMID: 8200362 (Publication Type: Journal Article)

Topics

• Adolescent
• Adult
• Age Factors
• Aged
• Aged, 80 and over
• Cause of Death
• Combined Modality Therapy
• Female
• Follow-Up Studies
• Granulosa Cell Tumor (mortality, pathology, radiotherapy, surgery)
• Humans
• Middle Aged
• Neoplasm Metastasis
• Neoplasm Recurrence, Local (epidemiology, therapy)
• Neoplasm Staging
• Neoplasms, Second Primary (mortality)
• Ovarian Neoplasms (mortality, pathology, radiotherapy, surgery)
• Poland (epidemiology)
• Remission Induction
• Salvage Therapy
• Survival Rate
• Treatment Outcome