Right Upper Abdominal Resections in Advanced Stage Ovarian Cancer

Urinary Tract Resections as Part of Debulk- ing Surgery in Advanced Stage and Relapsed Ovarian Cancer

Ovarian cancer remains one of the most aggressive gynecologic malignancies especially due to its’ high propensity to spread via multiple routes such as peritoneal, lymphatic and even hematogenous route. The multiple patterns of spread in association with the absence of specific symptoms are responsible for the fact that most patients are diagnosed in an advanced stage of the disease when multip...

Optimum Surgery in Advanced-stage Ovarian Cancer

Feasibility and Safety of Extensive Upper Abdominal Surgery in Elderly Patients with Advanced Epithelial Ovarian Cancer

We performed a retrospective study to evaluate the feasibility and safety of extensive upper abdominal surgery (EUAS) in elderly (>/=65 yr) patients with advanced ovarian cancer. Records of patients with advanced epithelial ovarian cancer who received surgery at our institution between January 2001 and June 2005 were reviewed. A total of 137 patients including 32 (20.9%) elderly patients were i...

Simple structural chromosomal abnormalities in advanced stage of ovarian cancer.

BACKGROUND Ovarian cancer represents the leading cause of death among patients with gynaecological cancer. The identification of chromosomal abnormalities is a useful strategy toward understanding tumourigenesis and specific chromosomal associations. Since single chromosomal changes might be primary events implicated in the initiation of the neoplastic process, the aim of the present study was ...

Multiorgan resections for advanced colorectal cancer.

BACKGROUND A retrospective review is presented of a single institution's experience with multivisceral resections for locally-advanced colorectal cancer. MATERIALS AND METHODS Twenty-eight patients, who had undergone RO multiorgan resection, were identified from the database of a total of 1150 patients operated on for colorectal carcinoma in the years 1995-2005 at a single center. There were ...