OVARIAN CARCINOSARCOMA: ABOUT A CASE AND REVIEW OF LITERATURE
*Meriem Nadi, Hanane Ouhame, Charaf Fourati, Mounia Malki Yousfi and Samir Bargach
ABSTRACT
Ovarian carcinosarcoma is one of the rarest histological subtypes of ovarian cancer. There are approximately 1-4% of all ovarian cancers. Given the rarity of this histological type, management is often extrapolated from the experience of ovarian adenocarcinoma. The prognosis seems to be more dismal than adenocarcinomas, with a median survival of less than 18 months, very variable according to the studies and the stages of the disease. The histological, homologous or heterologous subtype is not associated with a change in prognosis. On the other hand, the stage of the disease at diagnosis, the age of the patient, the complete surgery, seem to affect survival. Response rate to chemotherapy is approximately 20%. We report a case of 73-year-old female patient, with an ovarian carcinosarcoma stage IIIC.
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