Early stage epithelial ovarian cancer metastasis through peritoneal fluid circulation

BACKGROUND: Although epithelial ovarian cancer (EOC) spreads through peritoneal circulation, all patients with clinical early-stage ovarian cancer (OC) benefit from routine surgical staging is still unclear.

METHODS: This cross-sectional study used data from medical records of patients with clinical early-stage EOC who received complete surgical staging from 2006 to 2016 at our hospital. We excluded patients with non-epithelial OC or with stage IV disease.

RESULTS: Among 50 patients with clinical early-stage EOC who underwent surgical staging, biopsies showed EOC cells in peritoneal fluid for 12 patients (24%), in peritoneal tissue for ten patients (20%), and omental tissue for eight patients (16%). Of those 50 patients, 40 patients had undergone peritoneal biopsies, and the other five patients also had omental biopsies. The results showed that only one (2.5%) from 40 patients with peritoneal biopsy and three (6.7%) from 45 patients with omental biopsy had no visible nodules. From cytology examination, 3 out of 26 patients (11.5%) showed positive cytology from peritoneal washing.

CONCLUSIONS: Routine peritoneal biopsies do not seem advantageous for patients with clinical early-stage EOC as negative visible nodules with positive biopsy results were only 1 in 40 cases. However, further study with a larger cohort is needed to obtain more information on peritoneal fluid metastasis patterns.

Medienart:

E-Artikel

Erscheinungsjahr:

2021

Erschienen:

2021

Enthalten in:

Zur Gesamtaufnahme - volume:14

Enthalten in:

Journal of ovarian research - 14(2021), 1 vom: 16. März, Seite 44

Sprache:

Englisch

Beteiligte Personen:

Purbadi, Sigit [VerfasserIn]
Anggraeni, Tricia Dewi [VerfasserIn]
Vitria, Angelina [VerfasserIn]

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Themen:

Epithelial ovarian cancer
Journal Article
Proportion of spreading
Surgical staging

Anmerkungen:

Date Completed 26.10.2021

Date Revised 26.10.2021

published: Electronic

Citation Status MEDLINE

doi:

10.1186/s13048-021-00795-z

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PPN (Katalog-ID):

NLM322834171