title: [Primary ovarian cancer].
abstract: Out of 108 patients treated for primary ovarian cancer from 1984 to 1986, 76% suggested adnexal changes, while malignancy was suspected only in 35% of them. The first symptoms appeared in 51.8% of patients up to three months before the establishment of the diagnosis. In the two thirds of them the disease was in the III or IV stage. Histologically, epithelial tumours were most frequent (86.1%), mostly (51.6%) moderately differentiated. Surgery ranged from hysterectomy with adnexectomy and omentectomy (58.3%) to explorative laparotomy with biopsy. Later intervention included chemotherapy in 62%, chemotherapy and radiotherapy in 15.7%, and radiotherapy alone in 14.8% of patients. Too short a time has elapsed since the treatment started to predict a 5-year survival, but the 2-year survival for all patients amounts to 38.9%.
authors.forename: S
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Petković
authors.forename: A
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Radosavljević
authors.forename: V
authors.initials: V
authors.lastname: Kesić
mesh_terms: D000293:Adolescent; D000328:Adult; D000368:Aged; D000369:Aged, 80 and over; D002648:Child; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008875:Middle Aged; D010051:Ovarian Neoplasms / Q000401:mortality / Q000473:pathology / Q000628:therapy
vernacular_title: Primarni rak jajnika.