The revised 2014 FIGO staging system for epithelial ovarian cancer: is a subclassification of FIGO stage IV justified?
B Ataseven, P Harter, F Heitz, S Heikaus, C Grimm, A Traut, C Kurzeder, S Prader, A du Bois · Geburtshilfe und Frauenheilkunde · 2016 · Heft 10
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Objective: The revised 2014 FIGO staging system for epithelial ovarian cancer (EOC) included many changes of the previous system, particularly dividing FIGO stage IV in two subgroups. We evaluated if stratifying patients with EOC in FIGO stage IVA and IVB has any prognostic implication. Patients and methods: We analyzed our prospectively maintained institutional database for primary EOC and included only consecutive FIGO stage IV patients treated between 2000 and 2014. Patients were stratified in two cohorts: FIGO IVA and FIGO IVB. Patients with abdominal-wall-metastasis as the only manifestation of distant meta…