Breakthrough findings reported in 2018 provide the foundations for paradigm shifts in the care of patients with ovarian cancer. These results have implications for treatment in the first-line setting (with improved and refined use of established treatment modalities), firmly introduce concepts of consolidation and maintenance therapy, and enable more accurate prediction of drug sensitivity and resistance.
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Advances in ovarian cancer treatment with interval surgery followed by hyperthermic intraperitoneal chemotherapy and re-definition of the value of secondary surgery pave the way to improve outcomes using established therapies2,3.
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Findings from the SOLO1 trial demonstrated a substantial improvement in progression-free survival in women with BRCA1/2 mutations using maintenance olaparib following initial platinum-based chemotherapy5.
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Translational findings demonstrated the importance of testing tissues before therapy, potentially including identification of copy number variation signatures or BRCA1 methlyation, which might improve the integration of predictive biomarkers for ovarian cancer therapy8,9.
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Oza, A.M. Advances in prediction for ovarian cancer treatment stratification. Nat Rev Clin Oncol 16, 75–76 (2019). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41571-018-0147-3
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