Frequency and distribution of lymph node metastases in epithelial ovarian cancer.

Background: The aim of this retrospective study was to evaluate the incidence and distribution of nodal metastases in relation to the serous versus nonserous histological subtypes of epithelial ovarian cancer.

Methods: Patients were treated primarily with upfront surgery, including pelvic and paraaortic systematic lymphadenectomy, up to the level of the left renal vein, before any kind of chemotherapy administration. Patients were classified according the tumor histology into 2 groups: serous (including the cases of mixed histology with a serous component) and nonserous group.

Treatment of invasive cervical cancer: Rijeka experience.

The aim of this retrospective analysis was to evaluate the survival rate in 661 patients with cervical cancer regarding two time periods 1990-1996 and 1997-2003 and the specific stage related risk factors. The respective five-year survival was 71.7% and 80.