| Literature DB >> 23980020 |
E Saladino1, F Fleres, S Irato, C Famulari, A Macrì.
Abstract
Nowadays the standard clinical management for advanced epithelial ovarian cancer is constituted by primary cytoreductive surgery associated to adjuvant systemic chemotherapy. Even if this first-line chemotherapy shows a high rate of complete responses, the disease recurrences occur especially in stage-III patients. Actually an option for this subset of patients is represented by secondary cytoreductive surgery plus hyperthermic intraperitoneal chemotherapy that represents a promising therapy, having shown positive results in terms of median overall survival, progression free survival and overall survival. However, a much more research is still required especially by prospective randomised trials to improve outcomes in recurrent ovarian cancer.Entities:
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Year: 2013 PMID: 23980020 DOI: 10.1007/s13304-013-0229-9
Source DB: PubMed Journal: Updates Surg ISSN: 2038-131X