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5 - Medical Treatment of Ovarian Carcinoma

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  11 September 2009

Rebecca L. Bowen
Affiliation:
Department of Medical Oncology, St Bartholomew's Hospital, London, UK
Maurice L. Slevin
Affiliation:
Department of Medical Oncology, St Bartholomew's Hospital, London, UK
Rodney Reznek
Affiliation:
St. Bartholomew's Hospital, London
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Summary

Introduction

Ovarian cancer is a very chemosensitive tumour with a number of classes of drugs showing activity. Major advances in treatment of newly diagnosed ovarian cancer have improved survival but most patients relapse and require further treatment and only a minority of patients with advanced disease achieve long-term survival. Research is directed towards finding new effective agents and regimes with minimum toxicities.

Chemotherapy in Early Stage Disease

Two prospective, randomised trials of patients with stage Ia or Ib disease with well or moderately differentiated cancers demonstrated a 5-year survival of over 90% with surgery alone. 81 patients were randomized after surgery to receive oral melphalan (0.2 mg/kg/day for 5 days) or no further treatment. There were no significant differences between the no chemotherapy and the melphalan arms with respect to either 5-year disease-free survival (91% vs. 98%; p = 0.41) or overall survival (94% vs. 98%; p = 0.43). In the second trial, 141 patients with poorly differentiated stage I or stage II disease received either melphalan (as above) or a single intraperitoneal dose of P32 at the time of surgery. The outcomes for the two treatment groups were similar. 5 year disease-free survival (DFS) was 80% in both groups and overall survival was 81% with melphalan versus 78% with P32; p = 0.48 [1]. An Italian group studied 271 patients with moderate or poorly differentiated stage Ia, b and c disease. Patients were randomised to Cisplatinum (50 mg/m2 with repeated courses every 28 days for 6 cycles) versus observation versus P32.

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