Abstract
Abstract Although at one time malignant gynecologic tumors in pediatric patients were almost always lethal, today, with better understanding of the behavior of these tumors and the use of radical measures, some success can be achieved. Specifically, our experience with 33 patients indicated that: (1) location and treatment with adequate irradiation of the sites of metastatic disease may afford the patient with dysgerminoma of the ovary a chance for cure; (2) intensive chemotherapy used in addition to the indicated surgical procedure may benefit children with embryonal carcinoma of the ovary; (3) children with sarcoma botryoides, once a uniformly fatal disease, may be cured with pelvic exenteration; and (4) the combination of chemotherapy and irradiation for patients with rhabdomyosarcoma of the pelvis may prove to be the most effective treatment.
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