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Literature for ENYGO

Treatment of ovarian tumours of low malignant potential
(borderline ovarian tumours)

Editor Ignacio Zapardiel Lee et al. [3] published an anecdotal case report: a mucinous
BOT was diagnosed in a 93-year-old woman who was treated by
Descriptive summary tumoural mass removal due to the patient’s age. Two years prior to
that admission she had already been diagnosed with a suspicious
The key points of the articles retrieved are the following: ovarian mass.

Prognostic factors:

In a metaanalysis [1], it has been found that the complete surgical
staging of borderline ovarian tumours (BOT) could improve the
relapse rate but does not affect overall survival, as reported previ-
ously by several authors. Ureyen et al. [2] suggested that surgical
staging gives an idea of recurrence probability but not of the survival
prognosis.

Relevant articles retrieved Nov 2015 - Feb 2016

No Title Authors Journal Link to abstract
Eur J Cancer.
1 Impact of surgical staging on prognosis in patients with borderline ovarian Sheem SH et al. http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/
tumours: A meta-analysis. Int J Gynecol Cancer. pubmed/26735354

2 The Factors Predicting Recurrence in Patients With Serous Borderline Ovarian Ureyen I et al. J Menopausal Med. http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/
Tumor. pubmed/26512785

3 Mucinous Borderline Ovarian Tumor in Very Old Aged Postmenopausal Lee SH et al. http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/
Woman. articles/PMC4719091/

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