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A predictive index of cure versus no cure in advanced ovarian carcinoma patients—Replacement of second-look laparotomy as a diagnostic test

Abstract

Three hundred forty-two Stage III and IV epithelial ovarian carcinoma patients received cytoreductive surgery followed by Adriamycin and cisplatin, 50 mg/m2 each, q 4 weeks for 9 courses. One hundred ninety-seven were clinically NED at completion of treatment and 173 of these 197 had a second-look laparotomy. One hundred twenty had persistent disease. Fifty-three were second-look negative and had no further treatment. Thirty of these latter …

Authors

Carmichael JA; Shelley WE; Brown LB; Fraser RC; Kirk ME; Krepart GV; Levitt M; Roy M; Willan AR; Wilson KS

Journal

Gynecologic Oncology, Vol. 27, No. 3, pp. 269–278

Publisher

Elsevier

Publication Date

7 1987

DOI

10.1016/0090-8258(87)90246-0

ISSN

0090-8258