[Endolymphatic polychemotherapy in treating cancer of the corpus uteri]

At the Rostov Research Oncological Institute 49 patients with uterine cancer were tested by endolymphatic infusion with the preliminary estimation of the tumor sensitivity to chemical drugs. To test the efficacy of the treatment applied was cytological control of the uterine aspirate every 5 days after the infusion prior to surgery, and also morphological changes in the removed tumors at different terms after endolymphatic polychemotherapy. After administration of the drugs at 2--5 day a cessation of the uterine bleeding, lessening or disappearance of pains were noted usually. Among 14 patients with an enlarged uterus as if in the 8--10 week pregnancy, its size was normalized in 11 patients following the treatment. In 5 of 8 patients with parametrial infiltrates the latter completely disappeared while in 3-separated from pelvic walls. Of 3 patients with vaginal metastases the latter disappeared in one case, in 2 cases these were 2/3--1/2 diminished. Total extirpation of the uterus with adnexa was performed in 41 patients, in three of them a histological assay showed no tumor in the removed specimens.