Table 1.

Demographic data of the 36 patients

Demographic character	Data
Age (years):	Mean: 57.2, Range: 42 to 72
Menopause:	25 postmenopausal (69.4%)
Pathology:	9 postmenopausal vaginal bleeding or irregular vaginal bleeding (25.0%)
	12 vaginal discharge (33.3%)
	9 abdominal distension or abdominal pain (25.0%)
	1 back pain
	4 asymptomatic yet with pelvic mass (11.1%)
	1 poorly differentiated carcinoma
Preoperative screening:	28 preoperative cervical TCT 6 curettage
Surgical method:	1 left oophorectomy and partial omentum resection
	35 uterine double oophorectomy
	31 pelvic an/or aortic lymph node dissection
	35 full or partial omental resection
	20 cytoreductive surgery
Adjuvant therapies:
Chemotherapy:	1 one-course preoperative neoadjuvant chemotherapy
	35 four- to eight-course postoperative chemotherapy
	31 TP
	4 cisplatin and PC, or cisplatin, PC and PAC
Radiotherapy:	1 radiotherapy after six-course chemotherapy

Abbreviation: TCT thinpprep cytology test, TP taxol and cisplatin, PC cisplatin and cyclophosphamide, PAC cisplatin, adriamycin and cyclophosphamide.