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Meta-Analysis Affirms Survival Benefit of Second Surgery in Ovarian Cancer
Secondary cytoreductive surgery (SCS) for recurrent ovarian cancer significantly improved overall survival (OS) when surgery achieved maximal tumor resection, a large meta-analysis showed. Pooled data from 36 studies showed a death rate of 44.2%, which decreased substantially with increasing rates of complete and optimal SCS. With cutoffs of ≤70% for complete cytoreduction and ≤85% for…