Ultra-radical surgery in ovarian cancer

Cytoreductive surgery in ovarian cancer

As the overall prognosis for patients with ovarian cancer is poor, the management of this condition should be restricted to expert multi-disciplinary teams in gynaecological oncology. Apparent early stage ovarian cancer requires accurate and complete staging so that potential sites for metastases are not missed. Omitting adequate staging may have significant consequences including a negative im...

Assessment of the efficacy of radical surgery and intraperitoneal chemotherapy in ovarian cancer

Nowadays, ovarian cancer is the fourth cause of death in women being the most frequent cause of death among gynecological malignancies in the developed countries. Peritoneal carcinomatosis is a common characteristic of tumor extension in patients with primary advanced or recurrent ovarian cancer.1 Although at first it was believed that it constituted a final stage, in which the only therapeutic...

Radical Surgery in Advanced Abdominal Cancer

the measures recommended may not always find favor here. The evaluation of chemotherapy, and especially of the uses of penicillin, is more hesitating. Recent progress in bacteriology and immunology is dealt with sketchily, and although contemporary references are cited in the text, no bibliography is available. In spite of its shortcomings, the student may find this volume a useful introduction...

Optimum Surgery in Advanced-stage Ovarian Cancer

Quality control in ovarian cancer surgery.

This study is a literature review of papers in the English language dealing with quality control for ovarian cancer surgery. Quality control in surgery has long been a neglected area of medicine. Initial attempts were limited to cardiac surgery, but only very recently has there been any attempt to look at quality control in ovarian cancer surgery. Investigators from Hesse, Germany were the firs...