Ovarian Cancer

Intratumoral peak systolic velocity could be prognostic for survival

Published in Women's Health Weekly, October 24th, 2002

Researchers in Japan think intratumoral peak systolic velocity perhaps could be used as a prognostic tool to predict survival, preoperatively, in women with epithelial ovarian cancer.

K. Hata and colleagues, Shimane Med University, discussed their study in the journal Ultrasound in Obstetrics & Gynecology.

"Color Doppler imaging and pulsed Doppler spectral analysis were used in the investigation of 49 patients with epithelial ovarian cancer (19 serous, 15 mucinous, 8 endometrioid, 4 clear cell and 3 Brenner cell) immediately before laparotomy. Twenty-two were stage I, 6 were stage II, 17 were stage III and 4 were stage IV," the researchers...

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Source: Women's Health Weekly (2002-10-24)

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