Abstract
Ovarian tumors comprise about 1% of all tumors in children under 15 years old. The relative frequencies of childhood solid tumor types are shown in Table 1. Since Wilms’ tumor appears to occur with constant frequency throughout the world, a number of investigators have suggested using it as an index to show the relative frequencies of other tumors. In the series of Young et al. (1978) there are for each case of Wilms’ tumor 3.2 cases of brain tumors, and about 0.4 cases of gonadal tumors.
This is a preview of subscription content, log in via an institution to check access.
Access this chapter
Tax calculation will be finalised at checkout
Purchases are for personal use only
Preview
Unable to display preview. Download preview PDF.
Literature
Cangir A, Smith J, Eys J van (1978) Improved prognosis in children with ovarian cancers following modified VAC (Vincristine sulfate, Actinomycin, and Cyclophosphamide) Chemotherapy. Cancer 42:1234–1238.
Exelby PR (1980) Improved curability and changing concepts in pediatric cancer surgery. In: Status of the curability of childhood cancers. Raven, New York.
Gröber WR (1963) Ovarian tumors during infancy and childhood. Am J Obstet Gynecol 86:1027–1035.
Hedinger C (1980) Pathologie der Hodentumoren. Pathologe 1:179–187.
Landbeck G (1978) Tumoren im Kindesalter. Verh Dtsch Krebs Ges 1:265–273.
Moore JG, Schifrin BS, Erez S (1967) Ovarian tumors in infancy, childhood, and adolescence. Am J Obstet Gynecol 99:913–922.
Norris HJ, Jensen RD (1972) Relative frequency of ovarian neoplasms in children and adolescents. Cancer 30:713–719.
Robboy SJ, Scully RE (1970) Ovarian teratoma with glial implants on the peritoneum. Hum Pathol 1:643–653.
Scully RE (1970) Gonadoblastoma. A review of 74 cases. Cancer 25:340–356.
Talermann A (1980) The pathology of gonadal neoplasms composed of germ cells and sex cord stroma derivatives. Pathol Res Pract 170:24–38.
Van Eys J, Sullivan MP (1980) In: Status of the curability of childhood cancers. Raven, New York.
Young JL Jr, Heise HW, Silverberg E, Myers MH (1978) Cancer incidence, survival and mortality for children under 15 years of age. American Cancer Society, New York.
Author information
Authors and Affiliations
Editor information
Editors and Affiliations
Rights and permissions
Copyright information
© 1982 Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg
About this paper
Cite this paper
Stegner, HE. (1982). Ovarian Tumors of Childhood. In: Dallenbach-Hellweg, G. (eds) Ovarialtumoren. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-68462-3_18
Download citation
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-68462-3_18
Publisher Name: Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg
Print ISBN: 978-3-540-11327-0
Online ISBN: 978-3-642-68462-3
eBook Packages: Springer Book Archive