Impact of Interval Debulking Surgery on Clinical Outcome in Primary Unresectable FIGO Stage IIIc Ovarian Cancer Patients

Abstract

NACT followed by successful IDS can achieve good results in terms of survival outcomes in a high percentage of chemoresponsive IIIc ovarian cancer patients classified as unresectable at primary surgery. These results are in fact inferior to those achievable with optimal primary cytoreduction; however, they were quite similar to those seen with suboptimal primary cytoreduction.