One hundred and eight patients with cancer of the ovaries were studied retrospectively for a period of seventeen years. All the patients were managed in the Second Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology of the University of Athens. The symptoms of the patients were: pelvic pain in 43, ascites in 27, metrorrhagia in 23 and weight loss in 12. Fifty six per cent of the patients were between 40 to 60 years old and 63% were menopause. The PAP-smear in 40% was class I or II, in 50% was class III and in 10% was class IV-V. The stage of the disease was: 3 patients stage I, stage II 38, stage III 42 and 25 stage IV. No patient had stage 0. Laparotomy was done in all the patients. Thirty eight patients had Co-treatment and 42 patients chemotherapy. The pathology report was: serous cystadeno-Ca in 40, mucinous cystadeno-Ca in 38 of the cases, adenocarcinoma 18 and 12 other types of malignant tumors. The follow up of the patients showed a five years survival rate in 10% for stage I, 25% for stage II, 5% for stage III and none for stage IV.