Prognostic significance of normal-sized ovary in advanced serous epithelial ovarian cancer.

ABSTRACT: OBJECTIVE:We compared survival outcomes of advanced serous type epithelial ovarian cancer (EOC) patients with normal-sized ovaries and enlarged-ovarian tumors by propensity score matching analysis. METHODS:The medical records of EOC patients treated at Samsung Medical Center between 2002 and 2015 were reviewed retrospectively. We investigated EOC patients with high grade serous type histology and International Federation of Gynecology and Obstetrics (FIGO) stage IIIB, IIIC, or IV who underwent primary debulking surgery (PDS) and adjuvant chemotherapy to identify patients with normal-sized ovaries. Propensity score matching was performed to compare patients with normal-sized ovaries to patients with enlarged-ovarian tumors (ratio, 1:3) according to age, FIGO stage, initial cancer antigen (C

SUBMITTER: Paik ES 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC5709523 | biostudies-literature | 2018 Jan

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature