[Palliative chemotherapy of endometrial cancer. Value of combinations with doxorubicin and cisplatin].

The study of a series of 21 consecutive cases of adenocarcinomas of the endometrium requiring chemotherapy, has permitted to demonstrate the superior efficacy of an association of doxorubicin and cisplastin as compared to other plans containing only anthracyclin (45% of partial and complete remissions versus 20%); this difference, however, is not statistically significant. Intolerance reactions were similar in both groups. Confirming recent data from the literature, the results conclude in favor of: the determinant contribution of cisplastin to chemotherapy, the need of a strict selection of the patients intended for chemotherapy, the usefulness of induction chemotherapy trials, prior to pelvic radiotherapy in locally advanced forms, to improve their distant prognosis.