[Results of radiation therapy in carcinoma of the endometrium (author's transl)].

141 patients with endometrial cancer underwent radiation therapy at the department of radiology, University of Münster, between 1967 and 1979. The concept of the combined surgical and radiation therapy (intracavitary radium and percutaneous high voltage therapy) was adjusted to the stage (FIGO) and to the depth of penetration of invasive growth into the myometrium, this being ascertained by means of the excised tissues. Five-year survival for Stage-I patients amounted to 93.5%, for Stage II to 84.3% (ca. 80% were staged I or II). Radiation therapy of the aortic lymph nodes using monoaxial pendulum irradiation with 18-MV X-rays is discussed in detail, considering also the secondary radiation effects.