Treatment in early-stage ovarian cancer

Ovarian cancer is the second most common gynecological cancer and is the leading cause of death from gynecological malignancies. In the year 2008, in Russia, there were estimated 12 556 new diagnoses (10.7 per 100 000 women) and 7661 deaths (5.8 per 100 000 women) from ovarian cancer; in Saint-Petersburg –566 cases (12.4 per 100 000 women) and 353 deaths (5.8 per 100 000 women). Since accurate methods of early detection are lacking, only 25% of these cancers are diagnosed at an early stage. Early-stage ovarian cancer is defined as an ovarian tumor limited to one or both ovaries with no other organ involvement (F…