In regards to surgery it is recommended to perform total omentectomy since subclinic metastasis have been documented in 10 - 30 % of all cases , and systematic limphadenectomy , necessary to be able to obtain an adequate surgical staging .
Minimal invasion surgery is not a recommended procedure for the treatment of advanced ovarian cancer .
Radiotherapy can be used to palliate symptoms .
In the present , there is not a st and ardized screening method .
Diagnosis in early stages means a better survival .
Radiotherapy can be indicated to palliate symptoms
INTRODUCTION Ovarian cancer ( OC ) is the third most common gynecologic malignancy worldwide .
Most of cases it is of epithelial origin .
At the present time there is not a st and ardized screening method , which makes difficult the early diagnosis .
The 5-year survival is 90 % for early stages , however most cases present at advanced stages , which have a 5-year survival of only 5 - 20 % .
GICOM collaborative group , under the auspice of different institutions , have made the following consensus in order to make recommendations for the diagnosis and management regarding to this neoplasia .
Until now , laparoscopy for diagnostic-staging surgery is not well known as a recommended method .
In advanced stages , primary cytoreduction is recommended as initial treatment .
An international field study of the reliability and validity of a disease-specific questionnaire module (the QLQ-OV28) in assessing the quality of life of patients with ovarian cancer.
This study defines the psychometric properties of the European Organisation for Research and Treatment of Cancer ( EORTC ) quality of life ( QOL ) question naire design ed to measure the QOL of patients with ovarian cancer . The ovarian cancer module ( EORTC QLQ-OV28 ) was developed to supplement the EORTC QLQ-C30 . The core question naire and the QLQ-OV28 were prospect ively administered to 368 ovarian cancer patients after they had been treated with radical or debulking surgery followed by chemotherapy .  The QLQ-OV28 module assesses abdominal/gastrointestinal symptoms , peripheral neuropathy , other chemotherapy side-effects , hormonal/menopausal symptoms , body image , attitude to disease/treatment and sexual functioning . Question naires were well accepted by patients , baseline compliance rates were 86 % , 72 % provided a second assessment , less than 3 % of the items had missing data . Multi-trait scaling analyses confirmed the hypothesised scales . All hypothesised scales exhibited good psychometric properties . These results support the clinical and psychometric validity of the EORTC QLQ-OV28 module as a supplement to the EORTC QLQ-C30
In regards to surgery it is recommended to perform total omentectomy since subclinic metastasis have been documented in 10 - 30 % of all cases , and systematic limphadenectomy , necessary to be able to obtain an adequate surgical staging .
Minimal invasion surgery is not a recommended procedure for the treatment of advanced ovarian cancer .
Radiotherapy can be used to palliate symptoms .
In the present , there is not a st and ardized screening method .
Diagnosis in early stages means a better survival .
Radiotherapy can be indicated to palliate symptoms
INTRODUCTION Ovarian cancer ( OC ) is the third most common gynecologic malignancy worldwide .
Most of cases it is of epithelial origin .
At the present time there is not a st and ardized screening method , which makes difficult the early diagnosis .
The 5-year survival is 90 % for early stages , however most cases present at advanced stages , which have a 5-year survival of only 5 - 20 % .
GICOM collaborative group , under the auspice of different institutions , have made the following consensus in order to make recommendations for the diagnosis and management regarding to this neoplasia .
Until now , laparoscopy for diagnostic-staging surgery is not well known as a recommended method .
In advanced stages , primary cytoreduction is recommended as initial treatment .