Is the cure rate of ovarian cancer high?

Ovarian cancer is one of the most common gynecological cancers. Early detection usually leads to a higher cure rate. However, since most ovarian cancers have no obvious symptoms in the early stages, by the time most women are diagnosed with ovarian cancer, the cancer has already spread and reached an advanced stage. Therefore, the mortality rate of ovarian cancer accounts for a relatively high proportion of gynecological cancers. So is the cure rate of ovarian cancer high? Let's find out together.

Treatment of ovarian cancer:
1. Treatment principles Ovarian malignant tumors have different treatment plans due to different pathological types, and are often treated with surgery combined with chemotherapy and other comprehensive treatments.
2. Surgical treatment The first step in surgery should be a detailed exploration, including cytological examination of peritoneal washing fluid or peritoneal effusion, palpation of the diaphragm, pelvic and abdominal organs, pelvic lymph nodes, and retroperitoneal lymph nodes, in order to accurately stage the tumor. The surgical methods for early-stage patients are divided into comprehensive staging surgery and fertility-preserving staging surgery. The scope of comprehensive staging surgery includes bilateral adnexa, uterus, omentum resection and pelvic and retroperitoneal lymph node dissection. For advanced patients with extensive pelvic tumor implantation and metastasis, it is recommended to perform tumor cell reduction surgery as much as possible.
3. Chemotherapy Since ovarian malignant tumors, especially epithelial cancer, spread very early, most cases cannot be cleared during surgery, and the effect and application of radiotherapy are also very limited. Therefore, systemic chemotherapy is an important auxiliary treatment method. Especially for malignant germ cell tumors, standardized chemotherapy can significantly improve the survival rate of patients. For some advanced patients, the tumor can be reduced after chemotherapy, creating favorable conditions for satisfactory tumor reduction during surgery.
4. The radiosensitivity of ovarian malignant tumors treated with radiotherapy varies greatly. Ovarian endodermal sinus tumor, immature teratoma, and embryonal carcinoma are the least sensitive, ovarian epithelial cancer and granulosa cell carcinoma are moderately sensitive, and dysgerminoma is the most sensitive. Radiotherapy after surgery can usually control ovarian malignancies. However, since malignant germ cell tumors such as dysgerminoma are mostly adolescents and have good chemotherapy effects, and the side effects of abdominal and pelvic radiotherapy are large, radiotherapy is rarely used for ovarian malignancies.
What is the cure rate of ovarian cancer? Experts explain that, generally speaking, if ovarian cancer is treated promptly in the early stage, the five-year survival rate can be as high as 50% or more; the survival period of ovarian cancer in the late stage is relatively short, but it also depends on the specific situation and is closely related to whether metastasis occurs. Generally, if ovarian cancer metastasizes, the survival rate will be much lower.