Prognostic impact of initial tumor load and intraperitoneal disease dissemination patterns in patients with advanced ovarian cancer undergoing complete cytoreductive surgery
European Journal of Surgical Oncology Apr 23, 2019
Uzan J, et al. - In patients with advanced epithelial ovarian carcinoma after complete cytoreductive surgery, researchers examined how peritoneal carcinomatosis quantitative and qualitative localizations influence progression free survival (PFS). They included 101 patients in this monocentric cohort study. Outcomes suggest no association of initial tumor load with PFS after complete surgery. Patients receiving primary debulking surgery had a poor prognosis in correlation with adipocytes-enriched areas and right mesocolic areas involvement.
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