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  • Title: [The role of radiotherapy in the treatment of vulvar tumors].
    Author: Boiti Trotti A, Tseroni V, Rovea P, Nastasi U, Fracchia F.
    Journal: Minerva Ginecol; 1991 Sep; 43(9):381-4. PubMed ID: 1945023.
    Abstract:
    Carcinoma of the vulva is relatively rare, making up 3% to 4% of all primary genital cancer. It is a disease of the elderly. The Authors treated from 1976 to 1987 twenty-one patients with locally advanced squamous vulvar cancer (6 T2; 12 T3; 3 T4). Nine of these patients were submitted to radiotherapy alone; the others were treated with a combination of surgery and postoperative radiation. Two and five years disease-free survival rate was 33% and 19%. The rate of radiotherapy sequelae has been low, because the patients were treated with the concentional 200 cGy per day or similar fractionation schemes. Disease-free survival rate was better in the subgroup of patients who underwent to combined surgery and post-operative radiation therapy. These results are discussed in comparison with others series in literature.
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