[Assessment of prognostic criteria in uterine carcinomas (author's transl)]

Prognostic criteria of cervical and uterine carcinomas can be important for both physician and patient. Compared with patients not subjected to surgical treatment, a multitude of prognostic criteria must be investigated in operated women via the systemic examination of the surgical specimen, reaching beyond the weight attached to the clinically assumed staging. These criteria enable quantitative and qualitative characterization of the carcinomas allowing individualisation of therapy adapted to the tumour.