Surgical strategies in vulvar cancer.
The evolution of surgical strategies in vulvar cancer over thirty years of personal experience is considered. The knowledge of aggressiveness and risk factors of every tumor correlated with the patients' age allows today to perform adequate radical surgery even without the large multilations of the past. 5-year survival rate and incidence of relapses are the same while quality of life is highly improved. The Authors stress the new conservative trend in every field of oncological surgery.
Institute of Obstetrics and Gynaecology G. B. Revoltella, University of Padua.
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Marchetti
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D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008197:Lymph Node Excision; D008207:Lymphatic Metastasis / Q000473:pathology; D009364:Neoplasm Recurrence, Local; D009367:Neoplasm Staging; D011788:Quality of Life; D015996:Survival Rate; D014844:Vulva / Q000601:surgery; D014846:Vulvar Neoplasms / Q000473:pathology / Q000601:surgery*