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abstract:
Clinical outcome of neoadjuvant chemotherapy for advanced ovarian cancer
Highlights
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- Neoadjuvant chemotherapy (NACT) does not increase “platinum resistance”.
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- Complete debulking after NACT has better outcome than residual disease after primary debulking.
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- Inability to achieve complete surgical resection should be identified so that NACT may be offered.
Objective
To
evaluate clinical outcome in patients selected to receive neoadjuvant
chemotherapy (NACT) compared to primary debulking surgery (PDS).
Methods
Retrospective
study including all consecutive patients diagnosed and treated for
advanced (stages III-IV) ovarian cancers between the years 2003–2015.
Results
263
women were included in the study, of these, 127 patients were selected
to receive NACT and 136 were treated with PDS followed by adjuvant
chemotherapy.
PDS was associated with longer OS in stage IIIc disease (median OS: 60.2 vs. 48.8 months; p-value 0.039) compared with NACT.
Patients achieved higher rates of complete cytoreduction in the NACT group compared to the PDS group (65.9% vs. 40.2%; p = 0.001).
Patients attaining complete cytoreduction after PDS had the best
survival, (median OS 106 months) followed by those with complete
cytoreduction after NACT (median OS 71 months), followed by those with
residual disease after PDS (median OS 55 months). Patients with residual
disease following interval debulking after NACT had the worst outcome
(median OS 36 months).
Platinum sensitivity following
first line and second line chemotherapy was similar whether patients
received neoadjuvant chemotherapy or not.
Conclusion
PDS
was associated with improved outcome. NACT appears to improve survival
outcome in patients that would have had residual disease after PDS, and
attain complete cytoreduction at the time of interval cytoreduction.
This treatment option can be used in selected patients that are not
candidates for complete cytoreduction at PDS.
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