Didactics-Role of Surgery in Recurrent Ovarian Cancer

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The lecture addresses the role of surgery, particularly in treating cancer, emphasizing the need to consider the entire treatment plan, including chemotherapy. The speaker highlights the importance of understanding clinical trials' statistical endpoints, such as alpha and beta errors, and proper hypothesis testing to avoid misinterpreting results. The ongoing debate about surgery's effectiveness, dating back over 30 years, is underscored, with several randomized trials conducted to evaluate its role alongside chemotherapy. These trials, including GOG213, SOC1, and desktop 3, have shown varied outcomes, partly due to different methodologies, patient selection criteria, and the use of adjuvant therapies like Bevacizumab. The lecture concludes that the potential success of surgery largely depends on achieving complete gross resection and the patient's tumor biology and emphasizes ongoing research to refine these approaches.

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Dr Coleman
July 11 2024

Keywords

surgery

cancer treatment

clinical trials

chemotherapy

statistical endpoints

tumor biology