Ovarian cancer patients 70% less likely to die with aggressive surgical approach: Study

Medical Xpress / University College Dublin / Annals of Surgical Oncology ^ | Oct. 30, 2023 | Karen Mulligan et al

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Patients with ovarian cancer are 70% less likely to die three years after a multidisciplinary surgical approach is deployed, according to new research. The study on treating advanced ovarian cancer has found that aggressive surgery involving multiple specialists has a significant impact on survival rates.

The work analyzed more than 300 patients separated into two cohorts treated between 2006 and 2015 and 2017 to 2021.

In 2017, the Department of Gynecological Oncology at the Mater adopted an innovative approach to ovarian cancer surgery that saw collaboration between different surgical disciplines to perform operations focused on removing all visible tumors from abdomens.

The study found that under the new approach the death rate of patients with the disease fell from 64.5% to 24%, and that three years after surgery cancer had progressed in 75% of patients in the first group (2006 to 2015), while in the second group (2017 to 2021) this figure had fallen to less than 50%.

Professor Brennan said the research supports the growing body of international evidence that patients with ovarian cancer have better outcomes when managed in centralized, specialized oncology centers.

"Ovarian cancer is a complicated disease that requires input from multiple specialties including medical oncology, pathology, radiology and surgery."

The collaborative approach, he said, allows gynecological oncologists as well as colorectal, hepatobiliary and upper gastrointestinal surgeons to carefully plan the removal of diseased tissue and subsequent treatment.

"We believe that collaboration between different surgical specialties allows us to safely perform aggressive operations to remove all visible tumors from the abdomen, which is the single greatest predictor of improved survival," he added.

Ovarian cancer is one of the most common types of cancer among women in Ireland and is the seventh most prevalent female cancer globally.

[ConservativeMind]

Mayo Clinic-like approaches offer true benefits.

A friend of mine was just there for a procedure, and it was quite a bit cheaper than his city hospital said their less effective procedure would have cost him, with insurance.

He got in and out within a handful of days, rather than two or so weeks.

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[Bayard]

>>>>A friend of mine was just there for a procedure, and it was quite a bit cheaper than his city hospital said their less effective procedure would have cost him, with insurance.<<<<

I guess we live in a world where men get ovarian cancer treatments. Can I take a time machine to another era please?

[CoastWatcher]

In fact; everyone dies. Worthless title.