A clinico-pathological study of ovarian tumors in Yaounde-Cameroun

During the period January 1984 to December 1989, we treated 128 patients with ovarian neoplasms. 82.04% patients had benign tumors while the remaining 17.96% had ovarian cancer. Epithelial tumors were the commonest histological type (67.2%) followed by teratomas (17.19%). Most patients were of low parity, with 31.70% of patients with benign tumors and 11.11% of cancer patients, presenting also with infertility. An unfortunate feature of this study, as in most others from developing countries, is that patients since survival in such cases is a function of clinical stage and histologic type. One hundred and seventeen patients were treated by surgery (91.4%). Chemotherapy was used as an adjunctive treatment in 65.22% of cancer cases.