Every case is different, but as a rule, with ovarian cancer they first go in and do a total hysterectomy, take everything out then you do the chemo sessions. After that they do a second look surgery to look at everything and see if there is any evidence of disease.
It sounds like they want to do half the chemo on your wife first to try to contain/shrink the tumors then go in and remove everything and then finish the chemo.
Yes, that was the original plan. Now, however, due to problems with our overburdened medical system, the surgery has been postponed. The plan now leaves open the possibility that all of the six chemo cycles will be completed first and then the surgery will take place.
My question is, is it reasonable to expect the efforts of a surgeon to remove the last cancerous cells in the body or is that so much more likely to succeed with chemo that the surgery should always be followed by one or more chemo cycles?