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Treatment strategies for patients with advanced ovarian cancer undergoing neoadjuvant chemotherapy: interval debulking surgery or additional chemotherapy?


ABSTRACT:

Objective

To treat advanced ovarian cancer, interval debulking surgery (IDS) is performed after 3 cycles each of neoadjuvant chemotherapy (NAC) and postoperative chemotherapy (IDS group). If we expect that complete resection cannot be achieved by IDS, debulking surgery is performed after administering additional 3 cycles of chemotherapy without postoperative chemotherapy (Add-C group). We evaluated the survival outcomes of the Add-C group and determined their serum cancer antigen 125 (CA125) levels to predict complete surgery.

Methods

A retrospective chart review of all stage III and IV ovarian, fallopian tube, and peritoneal cancer patients treated with NAC in 2007-2016 was conducted.

Results

About 117 patients comprised the IDS group and 26 comprised the Add-C group. Univariate and multivariate analyses revealed that Add-C group had an equivalent effect on progression-free survival (PFS; p=0.09) and overall survival (OS; p=0.94) compared with the IDS group. Multivariate analysis revealed that patients who developed residual disease after surgery had worse PFS (hazard ratio [HR]=2.18; 95% confidence interval [CI]=1.45-3.28) and OS (HR=2.33; 95% CI=1.43-3.79), and those who received <6 cycles of chemotherapy had worse PFS (HR=5.30; 95% CI=2.56-10.99) and OS (HR=3.05; 95% CI=1.46-6.38). The preoperative serum CA125 cutoff level was 30 U/mL based on Youden index method.

Conclusions

Administering 3 additional cycles of chemotherapy followed by debulking surgery exhibited equivalent effects on survival as IDS followed by 3 cycles of postoperative chemotherapy. Preoperative serum CA125 levels of ?30 U/mL may be a useful predictor of achieving complete surgery.

SUBMITTER: Yoneoka Y 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6658596 | biostudies-literature | 2019 Sep

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature

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Treatment strategies for patients with advanced ovarian cancer undergoing neoadjuvant chemotherapy: interval debulking surgery or additional chemotherapy?

Yoneoka Yutaka Y   Ishikawa Mitsuya M   Uehara Takashi T   Shimizu Hanako H   Uno Masaya M   Murakami Takashi T   Kato Tomoyasu T  

Journal of gynecologic oncology 20190901 5


<h4>Objective</h4>To treat advanced ovarian cancer, interval debulking surgery (IDS) is performed after 3 cycles each of neoadjuvant chemotherapy (NAC) and postoperative chemotherapy (IDS group). If we expect that complete resection cannot be achieved by IDS, debulking surgery is performed after administering additional 3 cycles of chemotherapy without postoperative chemotherapy (Add-C group). We evaluated the survival outcomes of the Add-C group and determined their serum cancer antigen 125 (CA  ...[more]

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