Ovarian Cancer

touchONCOLOGY joins Dr Domenica Lorusso (Rome, Italy), to discuss the improvements in progression-free survival in patients with recurrent platinum-resistant ovarian cancer using relacorilant in combination with nab-paclitaxel. (NCT03776812) Question Please summarise the randomized, open-label, phase II study presented at ESMO 2021 exploring progression-free survival in patients with recurrent platinum-resistant ovarian cancer using relacorilant, a selective […]

touchONCOLOGY joins Dr Shibani Nicum (University College London, UK) at ESMO 2021 to present the first results of the OCTOVA trial of olaparib compared to weekly paclitaxel or olaparib plus cediranib in patients with platinum-resistant ovarian cancer. Questions 1. What are the unmet needs in the treatment of ovarian cancer patients who relapse within 12 […]

Worldwide, ovarian cancer is the seventh most common cancer and the eighth most common cause of cancer death in women.1 The GLOBOCAN study estimated there were 239,000 new cases in 2012 and 152,000 deaths due to this disease. There are nearly 600,000 women living within 5 years of an ovarian cancer diagnosis.1 In the EU, age-adjusted ovarian […]

Gynecological malignancies can be difficult to treat. Ovarian cancer carries with it the worst prognosis of all gynecological cancers. Approximately 75% of patients with epithelial ovarian cancer are diagnosed with advanced disease which is curable only in a minority of cases, resulting in a 5-year overall survival rate of only 20–30%. However, survival at all […]

Ovarian cancer is a leading cause of cancer death in women worldwide, with almost 300,000 cases diagnosed in 2018.¹ If diagnosed and treated at stage I, the 5-year relative survival rate is 92%. However, only about 15% of ovarian cancers are diagnosed at this stage, and the prognosis for advanced ovarian cancer is bleak: 5-year […]

Epithelial ovarian cancer has long been recognized as being highly sensitive to cytotoxic chemotherapy, with anticipated objective response to platinum-based chemotherapy of approximately 70-85%¹. Furthermore, overall survival (OS) for women presenting with advanced disease has been documented to have improved over the past few decades,² although unfortunately the majority of responding patients ultimately experience recurrence […]

Mature cystic teratomas (also called dermoid cysts) account for about 30–45 % of all ovarian neoplasms and around 60 % of all benign tumours arising in the ovary.¹ Malignant transformation of the various mature tissue components of a dermoid cyst is rare and the reported incidence is 0.17–1.4 %.^2,3 Squamous cell carcinoma (SCC), arising from […]

Ovarian cancer (OC) is the most lethal gynaecological cancer. In 2010, approximately 21,880 new cases and 13,850 deaths occurred in the US,¹ while in the EU in 2004 the incidence of newly diagnosed cases was 42,700 with a mortality of 12/100,000 women/year.² The current treatment of OC involves aggressive cytoreductive surgery followed by platinum- and […]