The impact of lymph node dissection on survival in patients with clinical early-stage ovarian cancer.

ABSTRACT:

Objective

To estimate the impact of lymph node dissection on survival in patients with apparent early-stage epithelial ovarian cancer (EOC).

Methods

We conducted a retrospective review of patients with clinical stage I-II EOC. All patients underwent primary surgery at Sun Yat-sen University Cancer Center between January 2003 and December 2015. Demographic features and clinicopathological information as well as perioperative adverse events were investigated, and survival analyses were performed.

Results

A total of 400 ovarian cancer patients were enrolled, and patients were divided into 2 groups: 81 patients did not undergo lymph node resection (group A), and 319 patients underwent lymph node dissection (group B). In group B, the median number of removed nodes per pati

SUBMITTER: Deng T 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8039180 | biostudies-literature | 2021 May

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature