title: Physique of patients with carcinoma of the female genital tract.
abstract: The authors carried out an investigation with a detailed anthropometric programme on 135 women suffering from different kinds of cancer: ovarian n = 35, endometrial n = 22, cervical n = 54, and vulvar/vagina n = 24. All patients were Hungarian and belonged to European ethnic groups. Their age varied between 25.6 and 85.0 years. Somatotype of the patients was estimated with the Heath-Carter anthropometric somatotyping method. Somatotype (endomorphy, mesomorphy, ectomorphy) of the patients with ovarian cancer was respectively: 6.8-5.3-1.0, patients with endometrial cancer 7.9-5.8-0.9, patients with cervical cancer 6.8-5.3-1.3, and patients with vulvar cancer 7.5-5.9-0.9. Based on variance analysis, there was no significant difference among subgroups at the p < 0.05 level. The patients in all four groups--in the overwhelming majority of cases--showed mesomorphic-endomorph forms, i.e., endomorphic elements dominated in their physique and mesomorphy (robusticity) was greater than ectomorphy (linearity).
authors.affiliation: Department of Biological Anthropology, Eötvös Loránd University, Budapest, Hungary.
authors.forename: O G
authors.initials: OG
authors.lastname: Eiben
authors.forename: J
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Buday
authors.forename: P
authors.initials: P
authors.lastname: Bosze
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D017677:Age Distribution; D000368:Aged; D000369:Aged, 80 and over; D000886:Anthropometry; D005260:Female; D005833:Genital Neoplasms, Female / Q000453:epidemiology* / Q000209:etiology / Q000473:pathology*; D006801:Humans; D006814:Hungary / Q000453:epidemiology; D008875:Middle Aged; D009765:Obesity