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A Randomized Trial of Lymphadenectomy in Patients with Advanced Ovarian Neoplasms

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Systematic pelvic and paraaortic lymphadenectomy in patients with advanced ovarian cancer who had undergone intraabdominal macroscopically complete resection and had normal lymph nodes both before and during surgery was not associated with longer overall or progression‐free survival and was associated with a higher incidence of postoperative complications.
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Background Systematic pelvic and paraaortic lymphadenectomy has been widely used in the surgical treatment of patients with advanced ovarian cancer, although supporting evidence from rando...

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Role of surgical outcome as prognostic factor in advanced epithelial ovarian cancer: a combined exploratory analysis of 3 prospectively randomized phase 3 multicenter trials: by the Arbeitsgemeinschaft Gynaekologische Onkologie Studiengruppe Ovarialkarzinom (AGO-OVAR) and the Groupe d'Investigateurs Nationaux Pour les Etudes des Cancers de l'Ovaire (GINECO).

TL;DR: In this paper, an exploratory analysis was conducted of three prospective randomized trials (AGO-OVAR 3, 5, and 7) investigating platinum-taxane based chemotherapy regimens in advanced ovarian cancer conducted between 1995 and 2002.
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Incorporation of bevacizumab in the primary treatment of ovarian cancer

TL;DR: This multinational double-blind placebo-controlled trial was designed to evaluate the addition of bevacizumab to standard front-line ovarian cancer therapy in patients with stage III or IV epithelial ovarian cancer.
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