Chapter 103

Ovarian Cancer: Second-Line Treatment Strategies

Maurie Markman

Maurie Markman

Cancer Treatment Centers of America and Drexel University College of Medicine, Philadelphia, PA, USA

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First published: 20 June 2014

Summary

This chapter presents a series of case studies with multiple choice questions and answers on second-line treatment of ovarian cancer. It commences with a discourse on reasonable subsequent management strategies of cancer, and ends with a phase III trial that compared the administration of cytotoxic chemotherapy with or without bevacizumab in platinum-resistant ovarian cancer, and three different cytotoxic regimens. The chapter also discusses regarding the clinical utility of secondary surgical cytoreduction in the clinical setting and second-line management strategies of ovarian cancer.

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