[Personal experience with ovarian dysgerminoma].

Abstract

The authors present 11 patients with ovarian dysgerminoma treated at the Institute of Oncology and the University Hospital Department of Gynecology and Obstetrics in Novi Sad. The average age of the patients was 33.90 years (the mean value 27). In most of them the disease was in an advanced stage, with considerable local findings at the beginning of the treatment. In only three 3 patients was the disease relatively limited. The results of the treatment were unsatisfactory: three patients have been alive for 8, 11, and 12 years after the beginning of the treatment, three patients after 6 and 26 months and are still under treatment but with suspect clinical or laboratory findings, whereas the remaining five died in the period between 3 and 4 months following the beginning of the treatment. All these patients were treated surgically in the first place, but radiotherapy proved of great help, because this tumour is markedly radiosensitive, and also chemotherapy was useful in some of the women treated. In general, therapy should be strictly adjusted to individual cases, primarily because the disease appears more frequently in younger women.