This study was undertaken to analyze the clinical features, histological types and the mode of treatment of gynecologic cancers.

Medical records of 941 patients with gynecologic cancers treated in department of Obstetric and Gynecology, Chungnam National University Hospital from Jan. 1. 1993 to Dec. 31. 2002 were reviewed. We analysed clinical characteristics, stage, histopathologic type and treatment modality of cervical, ovarian and uterine cancer.

Of 941 cases, 755(80.2%) cases were cervical cancer, 110(11.7%) cases were ovarian cancer and 76(8.1%) cases were uterine cancer. The mean age of cervix cancer is 48.4+/-12.0 years, ovarian cancer is 50.1+/-15.9 years and uterine cancer is 53.9+/-11.1 years. The FIGO stage distribution was 68.4% for stage I, 20.6% for stage II, 8.5% for stage III, 2.5% for sage IV. Squamous cell carcinoma (91.8%) was the most common histologic type of cervical cancer. Serous carcinoma (43.6%) was the most common histologic type of ovarian cancer. Endometrioid carcinoma (85.9%) was the most common histologic type of endometrial cancer. The main treatment modality of cervical and uterine cancer were surgery followed radiotherapy and that of ovarian cancer was surgery plus adjuvant chemotherapy.