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Electrochemotherapy of Tumours
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[Chemotherapy of dysgerminoma]
Geburtshilfe Und Frauenheilkunde
|April 1, 1987
Abstract:
Two patients with metastases after primary surgery to remove a dysgerminoma were successfully treated by chemotherapy. One received monotherapy with chlorambucil, the other vinblastine, bleomycin and cisplatin followed by irradiation. Both survived 5 years without evidence of disease. Dysgerminomas are highly sensitive not only to irradiation but also to chemotherapy. It is suggested that in younger women, in order to preserve fertility, chemotherapy should be used after primary conservative surgery, and irradiation only as a third-line remedy.
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