Recurrent carcinoma of the vulva: relationship with operative blood transfusion

Abstract

Previous studies of colorectal and breast cancer have indicated better survival in patients not transfused at operation. Retrospective analysis of patients having radical vulvectomy as a curative procedure in the years 1974 to 1984 showed that those transfused had a recurrence rate of 25 per cent while those not transfused had a rate of 10 per cent. Other factors known to be important in the recurrence of this disease were examined and found to be similar for both groups.