Stage III disease of ovarian, tubal and peritoneal cancers can be accurately diagnosed with pre-operative CT. Japan Clinical Oncology Group Study JCOG0602

ConclusionsPreoperative computed tomography staging in each institution can be the surrogate for surgico-pathological diagnosis in stage III disease of ovarian cancer patients undergoing neoadjuvant chemotherapy without diagnostic surgery, but reliability of diagnosis of stage IIIB disease is inadequate.Clinical trial registration: UMIN000000523(UMIN-CTR).
Source: Japanese Journal of Clinical Oncology - Category: Cancer & Oncology Source Type: research