Treatment planning in vulvar cancer patients.
Peculiarities of metastatic spread, recurrences and treatment results were studied in 148 vulva cancer patients, indications to adequate treatment were specified with respect to age, local and regional tumour spread. Efforts to apply on a wider scale preventive and therapeutic removal of inguinofemoral lymph nodes, to make vulvectomy and lymphadenectomy more radical, employment of radiotherapy with fast electrons lead to a substantial improvement of prognosis.
Petrov Research Institute of Oncology, USSR Ministry of Health, Leningrad.
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Bokhman
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Tadgibayeva
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Chkuaseli
D003131:Combined Modality Therapy; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008207:Lymphatic Metastasis; D009361:Neoplasm Invasiveness; D009367:Neoplasm Staging; D014846:Vulvar Neoplasms / Q000473:pathology / Q000532:radiotherapy / Q000601:surgery / Q000628:therapy*