Authors
Philipp Harter, Andreas du Bois, Maik Hahmann, Annette Hasenburg, Alexander Burges, Sibylle Loibl, Martina Gropp, Jens Huober, Daniel Fink, Willibald Schröder, Karsten Muenstedt, Barbara Schmalfeldt, Guenter Emons, Jacobus Pfisterer, Kerstin Wollschlaeger, Hans-Gerd Meerpohl, Georg-Peter Breitbach, Berno Tanner, Jalid Sehouli
Publication date
2006/12
Journal
Annals of surgical oncology
Volume
13
Pages
1702-1710
Publisher
Springer-Verlag
Description
Background
The role of cytoreductive surgery in relapsed ovarian cancer is not clearly defined. Therefore, patient selection remains arbitrary and depends on the center’s preference rather than on established selection criteria. The Descriptive Evaluation of preoperative Selection KriTeria for OPerability in recurrent OVARian cancer (DESKTOP OVAR) trial was undertaken to form a hypothesis for a panel of criteria for selecting patients who might benefit from surgery in relapsed ovarian cancer.
Methods
The DESKTOP trial was an exploratory study based on data from a retrospective analysis of hospital records. Twenty-five member institutions of the Arbeitsgemeinschaft Gynaekologische Onkologie Ovarian Committee (AGO OC) and AGO-OVAR boards collected data on their patients with cytoreductive surgery for relapsed invasive epithelial ovarian cancer …
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