title: A clinico-pathological study of ovarian tumors in Yaounde-Cameroun.
abstract: During the period January 1984 to December 1989, we treated 128 patients with ovarian neoplasms. 82.04% patients had benign tumors while the remaining 17.96% had ovarian cancer. Epithelial tumors were the commonest histological type (67.2%) followed by teratomas (17.19%). Most patients were of low parity, with 31.70% of patients with benign tumors and 11.11% of cancer patients, presenting also with infertility. An unfortunate feature of this study, as in most others from developing countries, is that patients since survival in such cases is a function of clinical stage and histologic type. One hundred and seventeen patients were treated by surgery (91.4%). Chemotherapy was used as an adjunctive treatment in 65.22% of cancer cases.
authors.affiliation: Department of Obstetrics and Gynaecology C.H.U.-C.U.S.S. Yaounde, Cameroun.
authors.forename: A S
authors.initials: AS
authors.lastname: Doh
authors.forename: W
authors.initials: W
authors.lastname: Shasha
mesh_terms: D000293:Adolescent; D000328:Adult; D000971:Antineoplastic Combined Chemotherapy Protocols / Q000627:therapeutic use; D002163:Cameroon; D003131:Combined Modality Therapy; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008875:Middle Aged; D010051:Ovarian Neoplasms / Q000473:pathology* / Q000628:therapy; D010052:Ovariectomy; D016896:Treatment Outcome