Open AccessIn patients with advanced ovarian cancer, primary suboptimal surgery has better survival outcome than interval suboptimal surgery
Author(s) -
Alpaslan Kaban,
Samet Topuz,
Pınar Saip,
Hamdullah Sözen,
Yavuz Salihoğlu
Publication year - 2019
Publication title -
journal of the turkish-german gynecological association
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.346
H-Index - 16
eISSN - 1309-0399
pISSN - 1309-0380
DOI - 10.4274/jtgga.galenos.2018.2018.0015
Subject(s) - medicine , ovarian cancer , cancer surgery , interval (graph theory) , outcome (game theory) , surgery , cancer , mathematics , mathematical economics , combinatorics
It is known that optimal or complete cytoreduction is the most important factor in patients with advanced ovarian cancer. The aim of this study was to examine the results of patients who did not undergo optimal cytoreduction and to examine subgroup analysis based on neoadjuvant chemotherapy (NAC).