Frontline Maintenance Treatment for Ovarian Cancer

Current status of maintenance therapy for advanced ovarian cancer

Even after countered with and responding to maximal surgical and chemotherapy efforts, advanced ovarian cancer usually ultimately recurs. One strategy employed to forestall recurrence is maintenance chemotherapy, an extension of treatment following a complete response to conventional measures. Many agents have been studied and many more are currently under investigation in maintenance regimens....

Immunotherapy for Breast Cancer Treatment

Breast cancer, as a heterogeneous disease, includes a wide range of pathological and clinical behaviors. Current treatment protocols, including radiotherapy, chemotherapy, and hormone replacement therapy, are mainly associated with poor response and high rate of recurrence. Therefore, more efforts are needed to develop alternative therapies for this type of cancer. Immunotherapy, as a novel str...

Optimal treatment for relapsing ovarian cancer.

The cure rate for women with ovarian cancer has not significantly changed over the past 10 years. However, overall survival from relapsed disease has shown improvement despite a lack of increase in progression-free survival. There are now many therapeutic options for women with relapsed disease. Treatment strategies are still led by the description of relapse as platinum sensitive or resistant/...

Surgical Treatment of Ovarian Cancer

[Surgical treatment of ovarian cancer].

Stage I a cancer among early ovarian cancers should be classified because of revision of FIGO classification in 1987, therefore preservation of fertility has become expected to date. Furthermore, a maximal debulking surgery as an initial operation, compared to a staging laparotomy, has yielded favorable results in the clinical outcome of advanced ovarian cancers in recent years. Surgical treatm...