Author/Editor		Fras, Albert Peter
Title		Surgical treatment of vulvar and vaginal cancer
Type		članek
Source		Gynaecol Perinatol
Vol. and No.		Letnik 11, št. 1
Publication year		2002
Volume		str. 35-8
Language		eng
Abstract		Current therapeutic concepts have been evolving in the treatment strategies of the vulvar carcinoma. These strategies are tailored to the clinical and pathological extent of the disease and its location. They integrate possible therapeutic advantages of both surgery and chemoirradiation and should lead to an improved anatomic and functional preservation in early vulvar cancer and improved locoregional control in advanced disease. Most vaginal cancers are well advanced when first observed, so it is logical that any effective surgery must be radical and therefore mutilating. Radical surgical treatment is often impossible because most patients are near old age, showing different physical condition and suffering from internal medical diseases as well as from obesity. So, it is not surprising that radiation has been accepted as the most common treatment modality of vaginal cancers, although surgery is also possible in special cases.
Descriptors		VULVAR NEOPLASMS VAGINAL NEOPLASMS NEOPLASM STAGING COMBINED MODALITY THERAPY TREATMENT OUTCOME