Should a bowel prep be considered when performing an ovarian cancer debulking and/or bowel resection?

This remains a controversial issue, although in recent years combined mechanical and antibiotic bowel preparation has once again been incorporated into clinical practice. This transition back to bowel preparation emerged following the publication by Morris et al. (Oral antibiotic bowel preparation s...

I never stopped using both a mechanical and antibiotic bowel prep. I think the willingness to use a bowel prep is directly related to the surgeons’ degree of “aggressiveness”. In other words, surgeons who are more willing to do a bowel resection are probably more likely to do a full bowel prep. On t...