Your Messages Inbox
Most Viewed Abstracts
1. Report Shows Shift in Starting Salaries for Physicians 2. Recommendations on the use of 18F-FDG PET in oncology 3. Use of Antiemetic Agents in Acute Gastroenteritis 4. Gene expression signatures, clinicopathological features, and individualized therapy in breast cancer 5. AHA Guidelines on Cardiac CT for Assessing Coronary Artery Disease
Your Article Summary
See Latest ArticlesCurrent status of maintenance therapy for advanced ovarian cancer
International Journal of Women's Health, 11/04/09
Hope JM et al. – Even after countered with and responding to maximal surgical and chemotherapy efforts, advanced ovarian cancer usually ultimately recurs. One strategy employed to forestall recurrence is maintenance chemotherapy, an extension of treatment following a complete response to conventional measures. Many agents have been studied and many more are currently under investigation in maintenance regimens. While phase III data suggest that taxane maintenance prolongs progression–free survival, no overall survival benefit has been established. This article reviews the current status of maintenance therapy for advanced ovarian cancer, including phase III evidence and new and upcoming trials.
Related Articles
Accuracy of reporting current medications by cancer patients presenting to an emergency center
Supportive Care in Cancer, 11/11/09
Relevance Score: 88%
Medical Management of Ulcerative Colitis
Digestive Diseases, 11/09/09
Relevance Score: 87%
Ovarian epithelial tumors of low malignant potential: a case series of 5 adolescent patients
Journal of Pediatric Surgery, 10/26/09
Relevance Score: 80%
Is there a role for maintenance therapy in non-small-cell lung cancer? An emerging issue
Expert Review of Anticancer Therapy, 10/22/09
Relevance Score: 80%
Management of hypertension in the elderly patient
Clinical Interventions in Aging, 10/01/09
Relevance Score: 80%
Today in Clinical Pharmacology...keeping you current
Receive free subspecialty "5-minute updates" via email
Efficacy of escalated imatinib combined with cytarabine in newly diagnosed patients with chronic myeloid leukemia
Haematologica, 12/18/09
Nilotinib As Front-Line Treatment for Patients With Chronic Myeloid Leukemia in Early Chronic Phase
Journal of Clinical Oncology, 12/18/09
How do providers assess antihypertensive medication adherence in medical encounters?
Journal of General Internal Medicine, 12/18/09
Today in Hematology/Oncology...keeping you current
Receive free subspecialty "5-minute updates" via email
Should routine screening by mammography be replaced by a more selective service of risk assessment/risk management?
Women's Health, 12/18/09
Pain in patients with lung cancer: Pathophysiology and treatment
Lung Cancer, 12/18/09
Initial testing of topotecan by the pediatric preclinical testing program
Pediatric Blood & Cancer, 12/18/09
Today in Women`s Health...keeping you current
Receive free subspecialty "5-minute updates" via email
Nipple discharge screening
Women's Health, 12/18/09
Gestational diabetes mellitus: an opportunity to prevent Type 2 diabetes and cardiovascular disease in young women
Women's Health, 12/18/09
Influence of sex hormones and phytoestrogens on heart disease in men and women
Women's Health, 12/18/09
Sponsor
Article Search
Sponsor
Sponsor