Medical Oncology

Ovarian Cancer   

Questions discussed in this category



Since there is no overlap between chemo regimens for these cancers, how would you sequence treatment? 

Given the crossover that occurred in the various clinical trials and the potential for prolonged disease duration, how do you integrate OS, PFS, treat...

In your practice, what is the proportion of patients receiving neoadjuvant chemotherapy who are diagnosed with VTE? Does this differ from patients rec...

Would your systemic therapy choice be more similar to treatment of ovarian carcinoma or soft tissue sarcoma?

How does your approach vary based on residual disease left at the time of surgery? Please specify your approach for the amount of residual disease at ...

Do you prophylactically start all patients on B12, B-complex, and/or omega-3? If so, what dose? What about ice mittens and booties?

Genes such as ATM, CHEK2, PALB2, RAD51C/D, BRIP1 seem to show some potential increased risk of ovarian cancer. Should these patients under prophylacti...

s/p optimal debulking. If this was an early-stage cancer would it change your adjuvant therapy recommendations?

Recurrence picked up incidentally on CT. No germ line mutations, somatic tumor testing of node resulted negative. PET confirmed isolated recurrence

Does your practice vary based on risk status (low vs high risk) or specific mutation status (BRCA+ vs HRD+) given PAOLA subset analyses? 

What specific platforms for determining somatic BRCA and HRD status do you use for a patient who does not carry a germline BRCA mutation?

Is MDS/AML risk increased with longer duration of therapy? Does your approach differ for patients who are BRCA+/HRD vs wild type/HRP?

Given recent approval of niraparib (Zejula) for the maintenance treatment of adult patients with advanced epithelial ovarian, fallopian tube, or prima...

Does your strategy differ if the patient is on maintenance PARP inhibitor, bevacizumab, both, or neither? 

Would you approach this situation as synchronous primaries (eg. FIGO IA in both) or as a locally advanced endometrial cancer (FIGO IIIA)? What adjuva...


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