Abstract

RODRIGUEZ REIGOSA, Juan Edmundo et al. Ovarian cancer at the National Institute of Oncology and Radiobiology of Cuba: 2001-2005. Rev Cubana Cir [online]. 2009, vol.48, n.1. ISSN 0034-7493.

INTRODUCTION. Ovarian cancer occupies the third place among the gynecological cancers, and it causes 5 % of all the deaths from cancer. The objective of this study is to know the hospital incidence, the response to the treatment and the global survival of ovarian cancer in our institution during a five-year term. METHODS. A descriptive, retrospective and lineal study was carried out among 192 females with ovarian tumors. Those with benign or non resectable tumors were excluded, as well as the patients that did not receive oncospecific treatment or that received it, but were followed-up in another hospital. RESULTS. The most affected age groups were in the fifth and sixth decades of life (40.4 %). Mean age was 48 years old. The most common clinical stage was the stage III (261 % of the females). 44.2 % were at stage IIIc. The most frequent histological type was the serous papillary adenocarcinoma (H" 70 %) among the epithelial cancers (49; 94.23 %). The global mean survival of the patients that received surgical treatment was 31 months. At the end of the study, the survival rate was under 40 %. Survival after the 36 months was null among the patients that did not respond to chemotherapy. CONCLUSIONS. The behavior of ovarian cancer at the National Institute of Oncology and Radiobiology does not differ to much from what is reported by the world medical literature

Keywords : Ovarian cancer; hospital incidence; response to treatment; global survival.

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