Brito DY, Caravia BF, Hernández DD, González AAG, Massip NJ

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ABSTRACT

Background: currently in Cuba and around the world, the ovarian cancer represents the eighth most important cause of malignant neoplasia in women, but it is the fourth cause related with mortality.
Objective: identifying behavior by histological types and by ovarian cancer treatment.
Materials and methods: a descriptive, retrospective study was carried out in patients with ovarian cancer attended in the Hospital “Ramón González Coro”, Havana, in the period between January 2001 and July 2013. The analysis units were the clinical records of the 98 studied patients.
Outcomes: it was observed that 69.3 % were aged 31-60 years. The average age of the entire group was 48.2 years; half of the patients did not refer pathological antecedents. The average parity was 1.3. 3.1 % had antecedents of confirmed and treated malignant neoplasia; 14.3 % had maternal antecedents of malignant neoplasia, being the most frequent motive of consultation “pain in the low womb” (40.8 %). There was not significant association between the stages (FIGO) and the cancer type.
Conclusions: the obtained results behave, in general, according to the epidemiological patterns internationally reported, though the frequency of the epithelial cancer was lower than the one referred in the consulted literature. Most of the studied cancers were in stages I and III.