Ovarian cancer: contribution of radiation therapy to patient management: Erskine Memorial Lecture, 1983
Ovarian cancer may be treated with radiation therapy, surgery, chemotherapy, or a combination. To evaluate the contribution of radiation therapy to patient management the cure rate must be estimated; data are presented suggesting that the 5-year survival rate provides a reasonable estimate of the cure rate. A study of patients treated since 1971 showed that stage and postoperative residuum could be used to divide patients into two subgroups, a poor prognosis group and a good prognosis group; a multifactorial grouping of patients in the good prognosis group who were treated postoperatively with radiation therapy only was further able to divide patients into low-risk, intermediate-risk, and high-risk groups. Studies of radiation therapy for different subgroups are discussed; abdominopelvic irradiation has been shown to improve survival for approximately one-third of patients with cancer of the ovary.
- Research Organization:
- Ontario Cancer Inst., Toronto
- OSTI ID:
- 6334606
- Report Number(s):
- CONF-8311191-
- Journal Information:
- Radiology; (United States), Vol. 153:1; Conference: 69. annual meeting of the Radiological Society of North America, Chicago, IL, USA, 13 Nov 1983
- Country of Publication:
- United States
- Language:
- English
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