Abstract

Summarize the writings published in the last 5years on the management of surgery in the first line of treatment for advanced ovarian cancer. For patients with a significant tumor burden, the neoadjuvant chemotherapy therapy (NACT) with interval debulking surgery (IDS) strategy shows comparable efficacy than primary debulking surgery (PDS) in terms of survival in randomized studies with less morbidity. Advanced epithelial ovarian cancer generates more than half cases a recurrence. First-line treatment is based on a chemotherapy regimen combining a platinum-based and a taxane-based, associated with surgery. This review considers papers of last 5years of timing, thinking tools, and innovation in the management. The choice of strategy, PDS or IDS, would be a personalized recommendation. The challenge is to adapt the timing of the surgery to the patient's characteristics and that of her disease.

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