CURRENT ETIOPATHOGENETIC VIEWS IN VULVAR CANCER

We considered 59 patients, from 19 to 79 years, treated for vulvar neo plastic pathology (32 of 59 had multiple squamous neoplasias of the an ogenital region), It appeared that vulvar cancer is a disease of aged women and in particular between sixty and seventy years, while it isn' t common under the age of thirty years, It is a hormone-independent pa thology, 85% of vulvar malignant tumors is constituted by squamous cel l carcinomas, The principal risk factors are: 1) chronic vulvitis (in particular Lichen sclerosus); 2) leucoplachia, 3) immunosuppression, 4 ) coitus in a young woman with different partners, multiple abortions, 5) HPV infection (mostly HPV type 6 and 16), 6) other genital carcino mas, 7) capacity to activate or not protoncogenes and to produce inter feron, 8) tobacco smoking, 9) VIN.