[Experience from palliative chemotherapy for advanced ovarian carcinoma - progress report on hospital with outpatient department at district level (author's transl)].

Reported in this paper is progress obtained from palliative treatment of patients with advanced ovarian carcinoma in an area under the control of a district hospital, between 1957 and 1978. Particular reference is made to the favourable effects of combination chemotherapy on survival rates and general condition. This study is intended to underline that the above therapeutic approach should not be restricted to few highly specialised centres and that it is practicable to the benefit of the patients concerned also under routine conditions at district hospitals. However, everything depends on high-continuity and persistent monitoring of these women on the basis of unity of hospital and outpatient attention.