Table 1 Demographic data of the 36 patients

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