Abstract

GONZALEZ, Mauricio; BARRERA, Carlos A  and  CASTILLO, Juan S. Advanced epithelial ovarian cancer in a group of colombian patients. rev.colomb.cancerol. [online]. 2013, vol.17, n.4, pp.142-148. ISSN 0123-9015.

Objective: To describe fourteen years of experience of in the treatment of advanced stages of epithelial ovarian cancer in the National Cancer Institute of Colombia. Methods: A retrospective observational case series including patients with epithelial ovarian cancer in stages III and IV, who received primary treatment in National Cancer Institute of Colombia between January 1^st, 1997 and December 31th, 2011. Results: A total of 119 patients were identified durin the study period. With a median age of 56 years, most patients showed functional status compromise (63.9%) and hypolbuminemia (82.4%). The most common histological type was serous adenocarcinoma (62.2%) and there was poorly differentiated histological grade in 63.3% of cases. Almost all (94.1%) patients had peritoneal surfaces compromise with involvement of the upper abdomen in 38.7% and extra-abdominal disease in 29.4%. Treatment with primary surgery plus adjuvant chemotherapy was performed on 89.1%, achieving optimal cytoreduction in 25.2%; 29% of cases showed progression during treatment, and 57% of them relapsed. The median disease-free survival was 16.61 months, and the overall survival was 28.93 months. Conclusions: In our setting, patients with advanced epithelial ovarian cancer have a high tumor burden and aggressive behavior of the disease, reflected in a poor oncological outcome.

Keywords : Ovarian neoplasms; Therapy; Neoadjuvant therapy; Surgery.

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