Which department should I visit for ovarian tumors

Ovarian tumor is one of the common tumors of female genitalia. It can occur at any age, but the highest incidence rate is in women aged 20 to 50. There is still a lack of effective diagnostic methods. So which department should I go to for ovarian tumor? Here is a detailed introduction for you, hoping it will be helpful to you.

Ovarian tumors require treatment at the oncology department. Here are some treatment methods for ovarian tumors.

Although great progress has been made in both basic research and clinical diagnosis and treatment of ovarian malignant tumors in recent years, unfortunately, the 5-year survival rate has not improved significantly. So, how to treat ovarian tumors? The following experts will introduce the treatment methods of ovarian tumors.

1. Surgical treatment

(1) Laparotomy to fully determine the stage

(2) Restaging surgery refers to comprehensive exploration and accurate staging performed when the first surgery did not perform accurate staging or medication.

(3) Cytoreductive surgery: Do your utmost to remove the primary lesion and all metastases, so that the diameter of the residual cancer is less than 2 cm. The thoroughness of the initial surgery directly affects the effectiveness of chemotherapy and survival.

(4) "Intermediate" or interval cytoreductive surgery. Some advanced ovarian cancers are estimated to be difficult to completely remove, so several courses of chemotherapy (less than 6 courses, not full courses) are used first, followed by cytoreductive surgery. This may make cytoreductive surgery easier to perform, but it is not good for postoperative chemotherapy. Cytoreductive surgery should be performed first. For patients with large, fixed tumors and a large amount of ascites, 1 to 2 courses of chemotherapy are performed first, which is called pre-chemotherapy. It can reduce ascites, shrink the mass, and loosen it, which can improve the quality of surgery.

(5) Secondary cytoreductive surgery refers to surgery for residual tumors or recurrent tumors, but if there is no effective second-line chemotherapy drug, the value of this surgery is limited.

(6) Secondary exploratory surgery refers to a second laparotomy performed within one year after ideal tumor cell reduction surgery and at least six courses of chemotherapy, in which no evidence of tumor recurrence is found in clinical examination and auxiliary or laboratory tests (including tumor markers such as CA125).