scholarly journals Erratum to: Anesthetic Selection and Disease-Free Survival Following Optimal Primary Cytoreductive Surgery for Stage III Epithelial Ovarian Cancer

2015 ◽  
Vol 22 (S3) ◽  
pp. 1611-1611
Author(s):  
Kevin M. Elias ◽  
Stephanie Kang ◽  
Xiaoxia Liu ◽  
Neil S. Horowitz ◽  
Ross S. Berkowitz ◽  
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2015 ◽  
Vol 22 (S3) ◽  
pp. 1606-1607
Author(s):  
Kevin M. Elias ◽  
Stephanie Kang ◽  
Xiaoxia Liu ◽  
Neil S. Horowitz ◽  
Ross S. Berkowitz ◽  
...  

2014 ◽  
Vol 22 (4) ◽  
pp. 1341-1348 ◽  
Author(s):  
Kevin M. Elias ◽  
Stephanie Kang ◽  
Xiaoxia Liu ◽  
Neil S. Horowitz ◽  
Ross S. Berkowitz ◽  
...  

2020 ◽  
Vol 106 (1_suppl) ◽  
pp. 15-15
Author(s):  
BM Ahmed ◽  
AT Amin ◽  
MK Khallaf ◽  
A Ahmed Refaat ◽  
SA Sileem

Introduction: Ovarian cancer is the most lethal gynecologic malignancy and is the fifth most common cause of cancer-related death among women. Approach to FIGO stage III epithelial ovarian cancer remains challengeable. This study aims to evaluate the outcome of interval debulking surgery (IDS) vs. primary debulking surgery (PDS) for FIGO stage III epithelial ovarian cancer. Materials and Methods: During a period of six years (January 2014 to December 2019), we analyzed the patients for eligibility criteria, which were: (1) FIGO stage III epithelial ovarian cancer. (2) The age of 18 years or more (3) Patients underwent either PDS or IDS and received chemotherapy at South Egypt Cancer Institute. We divided them into two groups: (1) Those received three cycles of neoadjuvant chemotherapy and then underwent IDS plus three additional cycles of adjuvant chemotherapy and (2) Those who have PDS followed by six cycles of chemotherapy. Results: This study includes 380 eligible patients. The first group included 226 patients (59.47%) underwent PDS then 6 cycles of chemotherapy, while the group of IDS included 154 patients (40.53%). The treatment modality was not significant for overall survival (OS); however disease-free survival (DFS) was significantly reduced after IDS when compared to PDS (median DFS: 33 months; 95% CI 30.23-35.77 vs. 45 months; 95% CI 41.25-48.75 respectively; p= .000). Moreover, in subgroup analysis, OS and DFS were significantly dropped after IDS in elderly patients, patients with bad performance status, sub-optimal cytoreduction as well as high grade and undifferentiated tumors when compared to those who underwent PDS. Conclusion: Although treatment modality may not impact overall survival (OS), however, PDS results in a better disease-free survival than IDS. Moreover, IDS results in a significant drop in OS and DFS in special patients subgroups when compared to PDS. Therefore patients selection should be considered.


2008 ◽  
Vol 18 (3) ◽  
pp. 499-505 ◽  
Author(s):  
R. SHIMOGAI ◽  
J. KIGAWA ◽  
H. ITAMOCHI ◽  
T. IBA ◽  
Y. KANAMORI ◽  
...  

We conducted study to determine whether and how the expression of the hypoxia-inducible factor 1α (HIF-1α) gene relates to outcome in patients with epithelial ovarian cancer. A total of 66 patients with epithelial ovarian cancer, who underwent primary surgery followed by platinum-based chemotherapy, were entered into this study. We confirmed the expression of HIF-1α and the vascular endothelial growth factor (VEGF) by immunohistochemistry. To determine the quantity of HIF-1α and VEGF expression, messenger RNA of each gene was measured by real-time reverse transcription–polymerase chain reaction. The cutoff values were determined by the receiver-operating characteristic curve according to survival. The protein expressions of HIF-1α and VEGF were strongly observed in the cancer cells. The cutoff value of HIF-1α and VEGF gene expression was 6.0 and 3.0, respectively. The expression of HIF-1α did not relate to clinical stage, but tumor with low VEGF expression was observed more frequently in stage I patients. The response rate to chemotherapy did not differ between high and low expression of both genes. The overall survival for patients with high expression of HIF-1α was significantly lower, but disease-free survival did not differ between high and low expression of HIF-1α, whereas both overall and disease-free survival for patients with high expression of VEGF were significantly lower. Multivariate analysis revealed that FIGO stage and HIF-1α expression were independent prognostic factors but that VEGF was not. The present study suggested that the expression level of HIF-1α could be an independent prognostic factor in epithelial ovarian cancer


2020 ◽  
Vol 66 (7) ◽  
pp. 948-953
Author(s):  
Xue-Ying Ren ◽  
Wei-Bin Yang ◽  
Yun Tian

SUMMARY OBJECTIVE Long noncoding RNAs (lncRNAs) have been shown to play a critical role in tumor progression. Abnormal expression of LncRNA PTPRG antisense RNA 1 (PTPRG-AS1) has been reported in several tumors. Hence, we aimed to determine the expression and clinical significance of PTPRG-AS1 in epithelial ovarian cancer (EOC) patients. METHODS The expressions of PTPRG-AS1 were assessed in 184 pairs of EOC tumor specimens and adjacent normal tissues. The levels of target lncRNAs and GAPDH were examined using standard SYBR-Green methods. The relationships between the expressions of PTPRG-AS1 and the clinicopathological features were analyzed using the chi-square test. Multivariate analysis using the Cox proportional hazards model was performed to assess the prognostic value of PTPRG-AS1 in EOC patients. RESULTS We confirmed that the expressions of PTPRG-AS1 were distinctly higher in the EOC tissue compared with the adjacent non-tumor specimens (p < 0.01). Higher levels of PTPRG-AS1 in EOC patients were associated with advanced FIGO stage (p = 0.005), grade (p = 0.006), and distant metastasis (p = 0.005). Survival analyses revealed that patients with high expressions of PTPRG-AS1 had a distinctly decreased overall survival (p = 0.0029) and disease-free survival (p = 0.0009) compared with those with low expressions of PTPRG-AS1. Multivariate assays indicated that PTPRG-AS1 expression was an independent prognostic factor for both overall survival and disease-free survival in EOC (Both p < 0.05). CONCLUSIONS Our study suggests that PTPRG-AS1 may serve as a novel prognostic biomarker for EOC patients.


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