Can advanced ovarian cancer be cured?

The early symptoms of ovarian cancer are not obvious, and by the time symptoms appear, it is basically in the middle and late stages, and treatment is relatively difficult and complicated. In addition to metastasis to other organs to a certain extent, late-stage ovarian cancer also faces the serious test of reduced quality of life and shortened survival.

So can advanced ovarian cancer be cured? To answer this question, we must first clarify what the standard of cure is. With the renewal of concepts, the clinical standard for cancer cure is no longer the complete removal of tumor cells, but a clinical cure standard of improving the quality of life and prolonging the survival period, "coexistence of human and tumor". The second is to determine the correct treatment plan. The selection of a reasonable treatment plan is a decisive factor in cancer cure.

Traditional treatments for advanced ovarian cancer mainly include surgery, radiotherapy and chemotherapy. Surgical resection is currently one of the effective methods for treating carcinoma in situ, but it is difficult to achieve ideal results for invasive ovarian cancer, especially in the late stage of ovarian cancer, when cancer cells have spread. Surgical treatment is less effective, and local therapies such as radiotherapy and chemotherapy are difficult to completely eliminate cancer cells. Patients are prone to relapse after radiotherapy and chemotherapy, and the side effects are large, which can easily damage the patient's various functional organs and cause a variety of complications, which in turn increases the replication rate of cancer cells and accelerates the death of ovarian cancer patients.