title: [The role of radiotherapy in the treatment of vulvar tumors].
abstract: Carcinoma of the vulva is relatively rare, making up 3% to 4% of all primary genital cancer. It is a disease of the elderly. The Authors treated from 1976 to 1987 twenty-one patients with locally advanced squamous vulvar cancer (6 T2; 12 T3; 3 T4). Nine of these patients were submitted to radiotherapy alone; the others were treated with a combination of surgery and postoperative radiation. Two and five years disease-free survival rate was 33% and 19%. The rate of radiotherapy sequelae has been low, because the patients were treated with the concentional 200 cGy per day or similar fractionation schemes. Disease-free survival rate was better in the subgroup of patients who underwent to combined surgery and post-operative radiation therapy. These results are discussed in comparison with others series in literature.
authors.affiliation: Divisione di Radioterapia, Ospedale S. Giovanni Vecchio, Torino.
authors.forename: A
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Boiti Trotti
authors.forename: V
authors.initials: V
authors.lastname: Tseroni
authors.forename: P
authors.initials: P
authors.lastname: Rovea
authors.forename: U
authors.initials: U
authors.lastname: Nastasi
authors.forename: F
authors.initials: F
authors.lastname: Fracchia
mesh_terms: D000367:Age Factors; D000368:Aged; D003131:Combined Modality Therapy; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D009367:Neoplasm Staging; D011182:Postoperative Care; D015996:Survival Rate; D014846:Vulvar Neoplasms / Q000473:pathology / Q000532:radiotherapy* / Q000601:surgery
vernacular_title: II ruolo della radioterapia nel trattamento del tumore della vulva.