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Recent advances in the treatment of epithelial ovarian cancer.

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:Ovarian cancer leads to more fatalities than any other form of gynaecological cancer in North America and Europe. Over the last 30 years survival figures have improved somewhat due to improvements in diagnosis, surgery and chemotherapy. Despite these advances, the majority of patients will die from their disease, with the overall 5-year survival being just 30%. The majority of patients with this disease will require treatment with cytotoxic chemotherapy. It is now well established that the platinum agents (cisplatin or carboplatin) are the most important drugs to be included in first-line regimens. More recently, randomised trials have confirmed the benefit of the addition of taxanes to platinum-containing regimens and the standard of care has become the combination of carboplatin and paclitaxel. Several unanswered questions remain regarding the optimal schedule, the optimum duration of treatment, possible benefits to be gained from the addition of other drugs and whether paclitaxel the best taxane. Despite high response rates to first line chemotherapy, the majority of patients with advanced ovarian cancer will relapse and will be candidates for further chemotherapy, which can palliate symptoms and improve survival even in recurrent disease. For a patient relapsing within six months of first-line treatment, studies have shown that there is little point in rechallenge with the same drugs. However, for patients who have a longer treatment-free interval the response rates to rechallenge with platinum is significant. A number of drugs have been shown to have activity in platinum- and taxane-refractory disease and are approved for this and/or other applications. These include topotecan, etoposide, pegylated liposomal doxorubicin, epirubicin, gemcitabine, altretamine, oxaliplatin and vinorelbine. Anti-oestrogens such as tamoxifen have a small but significant response rate. Recurrent ovarian cancer is a good setting to test investigational agents and compounds with promising activity including new platinums and taxoids, as well as a range of new compounds. Non-cytotoxic approaches that are showing promise include therapies designed to overcome drug resistance, signal transduction inhibitors, immunotherapy and gene therapy.

journal_name

Expert Opin Investig Drugs

journal_title

Expert opinion on investigational drugs

authors

Harries M,Kaye SB

doi

10.1517/13543784.10.9.1715

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Has Abstract

pub_date

2001-09-01 00:00:00

pages

1715-24

issue

eissn

1354-3784

issn

1744-7658

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Recent advances in the treatment of epithelial ovarian cancer.