title: [Postoperative adjuvant whole abdomen irradiation in ovarian cancer].
abstract: Seventy-nine patients with ovarian carcinoma stage I-III postoperatively received a whole abdominal irradiation (median dose: 22.5 Gy) followed by pelvic boost irradiation (median pelvic dose: 45 Gy) as the sole adjuvant therapy. Surgery preceding the irradiation was radical only in 59 percent of the patients. Whole abdominal irradiation was performed either in the moving-strip-technique or the open-field-technique. The median follow-up time was 57 months. The overall and the progression-free five-year survival rate of the whole group is 66 +/- 6% and 63 +/- 6%, respectively. We have not seen a clear-cut dependence of the survival rates on the completeness of the surgery, on tumor histology or grading. In a statistically significant way, the survival rates depend on the stage, the presence of tumor rests, and, above all, on the risk group. The overall five-year survival rate for the intermediate-risk patients is 78 +/- 7% and 22 +/- 11% for high risk patients. There aren't any randomized studies concerning the optimal adjuvant therapy for intermediate-risk patients. Because of the reproduceable results and the infrequent toxicity, whole abdominal irradiation seems to be a treatment equivalent to other adjuvant therapies for these patients.
authors.affiliation: Institut für Strahlentherapie und Radiologische Onkologie, Klinikum Ingolstadt.
authors.forename: H
authors.initials: H
authors.lastname: Lindner
authors.forename: N
authors.initials: N
authors.lastname: Willich
authors.forename: A
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Atzinger
authors.forename: G
authors.initials: G
authors.lastname: Schubert-Fritschle
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D000368:Aged; D003131:Combined Modality Therapy; D005260:Female; D005500:Follow-Up Studies; D006801:Humans; D008875:Middle Aged; D009364:Neoplasm Recurrence, Local / Q000532:radiotherapy; D009367:Neoplasm Staging; D010051:Ovarian Neoplasms / Q000401:mortality / Q000473:pathology / Q000532:radiotherapy* / Q000601:surgery; D010534:Peritoneal Neoplasms / Q000532:radiotherapy / Q000556:secondary* / Q000601:surgery; D012086:Reoperation; D015996:Survival Rate
vernacular_title: Die postoperative adjuvante Ganzabdomenbestrahlung beim Ovarialkarzinom.