Radioactive Isotope Therapy for Ovarian Carcinoma

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THIS REPORT describes an unusual instance in which a 22-year-old woman with extensive inoperable ovarian carcinomatosis was treated with a large dose of radioactive isotopes administered intra-abdominally. She became pregnant after the administration of 75 millicuries of radioactive gold and 20 millicuries of radioactive chromic phosphate. One month after gestation, and, of course, without the realization that the patient was pregnant, she was given another course of 20 millicuries of radioactive chromic phosphate intra-abdominally. She delivered a normal child by cesarean section. Report of a Case The patient had suffered pain in the region of the left side of the abdomen and had had the sensation of a large mass involving the left side of the abdomen for approximately 6 weeks. The abdomen had become distended. Her appetite remained good, and her bowel and bladder functions were normal. At the time she presented herself, on July 2, 1959, she had

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