[Results of treatment of vaginal carcinoma, 1960 to 1969 (author's transl)].

Reported in this paper are 81 patients who received therapeutic irradiation by various modes for primary vaginal carcinoma, between 1960 and 1969. Severities were as follows: 23.4 per cent in Stage I, 42 per cent in Stage II, 27,2 per cent in Stage III, and 7.4 per cent in Stage IV. One single percutaneous irradiation was applied, between 1960 and 1966, while combined contact-percutaneous irradiation was used in the second half of the sixties. Five-year survival rates were 65.6 per cent for Stage I, 29 per cent for Stage II, 35.5 per cent for Stage III, and 37.6 per cent on average. The best results of combined contact-percutaneous treatment were recordable from the earlier stages. Therapies tailored to the individual concerned proved to be most effective in the context of vaginal carcinoma.