Objective: Descriptive analysis of an intraoperative radiotherapy protocol (IOR) in the context of conservative management of invasive bladder cancer.
Method: From November 1988 to September 1994, 24 patients with invasive bladder carcinoma (20 T2, 3 T3) were included in this protocol consisting of: transurethral resection (TUR), neoadjuvant chemotherapy (M.V.
A 25-year-old woman with a stage IA pure embryonal carcinoma of the left ovary, without elevated serum markers namely AFP and HCG (nor-positive immuno-histologic marking at the later pathological analysis) underwent surgery alone (unilateral salpingo-oophorectomy). She relapsed seven weeks later with peritoneal carcinomatosis. She still did not have elevated tumor markers.
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