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Chemotherapy
Following surgery, patients (other than those with early-stage, low-grade disease) usually have chemotherapy. Unlike surgery and radiation, which treat the cancerous tumor and the area surrounding it, drug therapy destroys rapidly dividing cells throughout the body, so it is a systemic therapy.
Ovarian cancers are very sensitive to chemotherapy and often respond well initially. Unfortunately, in most cases, ovarian cancer recurs. With treatment advances, however, more than half of...
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Cancer - ovaries Treatment Surgery is used to treat all stages of ovarian cancer. For earlier stage ovarian cancer, it may be the only... Read more »
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In general, the course of treatment is determined by the stage of the cancer. Stages range from I to IV based on the cancer's specific... Read more »
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