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What features would push you towards re-operation for completion staging vs observation for a premenopausal woman with stage II borderline tumor of the ovary with capsule rupture and no other evidence of gross residual disease?

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Gynecologic Oncology · University of Alabama at Birmingham
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I would only reoperate if there were a survival benefit, symptomatic benefit, or change in treatment regimen. From the description, it doesn't seem like this meets any of those criteria.

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Gynecologic Oncology · BayCare Medical Group
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Probably none. What's the benefit of upstaging her with another surgery if there's nothing to resect on imaging, and I'm assuming is asymptomatic?

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