After one year, Dr. Paul A. Vasey and his research team found that survival rates were similar among both groups of women. While the results of the study are promising, Dr. Vasey and his colleagues warned that the data are preliminary. Ongoing studies are evaluating quality of life and duration of nerve damage in these patients.
Chemotherapy is one type of treatment for ovarian cancer.
While chemotherapy regimens are individualized depending on the patient's tumor type, size, and other circumstances, most physicians use a combination of different chemotherapy drugs when treating ovarian cancer. Other treatments for ovarian cancer include surgery and radiation therapy . In some cases, ovarian cancer cells become resistant to certain chemotherapy drugs or begin to grow after chemotherapy has ended. In these instances, additional chemotherapy regimens with a platinum agent and taxane are usually tried. If these therapies do not work, other drugs may be used to treat advanced ovarian cancer.