[Therapy and prognosis of female genital sarcomas]

A report is given about 75 genital sarcomas treated at the 1 st university clinic of obstetrics and gynaecology in vienna during the period 1960--1972. This number consists of 60 sarcomas of the corpus uteri, 3 cervical sarcomas, 8 ovarian sarcomas and 4 sarcomas of the vagina. Their therapy and prognosis is discussed. The importance of radical operative therapy with postoperative radio therapeutic treatment is emphasized and the necessity of a central documentation and a uniform classification of clinical and histological stages is pointed out.