Ovarian cancer: the challenge of local tumor control and its impact on survival.
To achieve better understanding of the factors influencing local control of ovarian cancer, an analysis of failure in early stages of ovarian carcinoma has been carried out. The material consisted of 185 patients diagnosed in early stages; 40 of them failed in their disease, 17 with local recurrence, 23 with distant metastases. The material was analyzed with respect to age, histology, grade, size and surface of the tumor, the surgical procedure and treatment modalities, and the time between treatment and recurrence, and recurrence and death. In the analysis, both the behavior of the ovarian cancer tumor and the pattern of failure was shown to be different for each histological group.
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D003131:Combined Modality Therapy; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D009362:Neoplasm Metastasis; D009364:Neoplasm Recurrence, Local; D010051:Ovarian Neoplasms / Q000188:drug therapy / Q000401:mortality / Q000473:pathology / Q000532:radiotherapy / Q000601:surgery / Q000628:therapy*; D011379:Prognosis