[Sociomedical aspects of a gynecological tumor follow-up practice (retrospective study of 308 women following genital and breast cancer therapy)].

Described in this paper are correlations between gynaecological carcinomas and the environment which were subject of a pilot study into 308 women.--MPI testing of aspects relating to personality psychology showed that one of the dimensions, extraintroversion, was independent of age but related with statistical significance to the time which had passed from primary tumour treatment. More than five years had passed from cancer therapy of one third of the above probands. Introverted personality traits were exhibited by 23 per cent of them. Only 15 per cent were introverted among 25 per cent of the above probands for whom tumour therapy had been one year back. The incidence of extraverted personality traits in the latter group was twice as high (21 per cent) as that in the group to whom primary cancer therapy had been applied more than five years back (ten per cent) (p less than 0,05). Social factors, too, were important to these correlations. --The amount of neurotic trends psychometrically recordable from married women following tumour therapy (25 per cent) was higher than that recorded from other women (16 per cent) (p less than 0,05). The incidence of neuroticism among women in tumour after-care who had given birth to three or more children was higher (33 per cent) than that recorded from those without children (ten per cent) (p 0,01).--The occurrence of psychosocial stress beyond expectation to women in the wake of cancer can be generally assessed by means of simple social data, such as age, marital status, and educational background.