| Literature DB >> 32360532 |
Jiahao Liu1, Xiaofei Jiao1, Qinglei Gao2.
Abstract
Neoadjuvant chemotherapy (NACT) has been regarded a standard treatment for advanced ovarian cancers for decades. Among patients who are poor candidates for primary debulking surgery (PDS), NACT is likely their only option in clinical practice. However, NACT failed to show any survival benefit in the reported randomized controlled trials (RCTs) and the meta-analyses, compared with PDS. This phenomenon raises concerns over the unfavorable influence of NACT, that is, the potential risk of inducing platinum resistance. In this review, we reveal the risk of NACT-related platinum resistance by summarizing the experimental and clinical evidence and discuss new attempts to avoid this phenomenon.Entities:
Year: 2020 PMID: 32360532 DOI: 10.1016/j.drudis.2020.04.015
Source DB: PubMed Journal: Drug Discov Today ISSN: 1359-6446 Impact factor: 7.851