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Second‐line treatment of first relapse recurrent ovarian cancer
Author(s) -
CHUA Terence C.,
LIAUW Winston,
ROBERTSON Gregory,
MORRIS David L.
Publication year - 2010
Publication title -
australian and new zealand journal of obstetrics and gynaecology
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.734
H-Index - 65
eISSN - 1479-828X
pISSN - 0004-8666
DOI - 10.1111/j.1479-828x.2010.01209.x
Subject(s) - medicine , ovarian cancer , cytoreductive surgery , chemotherapy , hyperthermic intraperitoneal chemotherapy , oncology , clinical trial , disease , adjuvant , surgery , cancer
First‐line therapy of advanced ovarian cancer involves primary cytoreductive surgery and adjuvant systemic chemotherapy. Progression of incompletely resected disease or recurrence after cytoreduction is inevitable. The approach to second‐line treatment is ill‐defined and chemotherapy remains the conventional approach, with surgery being reserved in some patients to debulk or palliate symptoms. Increasing evidence suggests that secondary cytoreduction improves progression‐free and overall survival. This approach may be appropriate in selected patients. Intraperitoneal chemotherapy delivered in the adjuvant setting postoperatively has been shown to be more effective than systemic chemotherapy in advanced ovarian cancer after primary surgery. However, its use has not been well accepted and has not been adopted in secondary surgery. Hyperthermic intraperitoneal chemotherapy delivered intraoperatively during surgery has been of clinical interest and may prove to be efficacious and advantageous. The support of the gynaecological cancer medical and surgical community to embrace the efforts and assist in the recruitment of appropriate patients into randomised trials of first relapse recurrent ovarian cancer will provide answers to questions and establish evidence that would impact the care of ovarian cancer patients.