[Early detection of ovarian cancer]

The authors have analysed the results of the diagnosis and treatment in 144 patients with ovarian cancer, which took second place (28.8%) among malignant diseases of female gneitalia. Including in ovarian cancer high-risk group of females with impaired menstrual cycle and reproduction function, previously subjected to surgery on the adnexa, mammary glands, the intestine and also of those longterm followed up for uterine tumors and their detailed examination would contribute to earlier establishment of the diagnosis of ovarian cancer and enabled the percentage of far-advanced cases of the affection to be reliably reduced in 1974-75, and a percentage of clinical recovery to be increased in ovarian cancer patients to the moment of their discharge.