[Vulvar carcinoma. Diagnosis and therapy].
Vulvar cancer is a rare entity. It appears mostly in older women aged 70-79 years with a slow tendency to younger age. More than 90% of the tumors show a squamous differentiation. The correspondent preneoplasia is VIN 3. This lesion occurs in women mostly younger than 35 years. Experts assume vulvar cancer to appear in two different types:HPV-induced type in younger women and non-HPV-dependent type in older women. The preneoplasia VIN 3 already should be treated by resection or destruction. Invasive carcinomas stage I or II can be treated by wide local excision. The inguinofemoral lymph nodes should be resected if invasion exceeds 1 mm in depth. In larger primary tumors, vulvectomy with bilateral inguinofemoral node dissection is indicated. In advanced tumor stages, multimodal concepts are applied: primary radiotherapy or radiochemotherapy may precede a salvage operation.
Arbeitsgemeinschaft Gynäkologische Onkologie, Frauenklinik, Lukaskrankenhaus, Neuss. HGSchnuerch@lukasneuss.de
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