Neutrophils, the most abundant circulating leukocytes, play a well-known role in defense
against pathogens through phagocytosis and degranulation. However, a new mechanism …

Peritoneal metastasis is a malignant disease which originated from several gastrointestinal
and gynecological carcinomas and has been leading to a suffering condition in patients for …

Simple Summary Maximal-effort debulking surgery is the recommended approach for
advanced-stage ovarian cancer. The role of imaging is to provide a preoperative systematic …

The standard treatment for advanced ovarian cancer (AOC) is cytoreduction surgery and
adjuvant chemotherapy. Tumor volume after surgery is a major prognostic factor for these …

Simple Summary Cytoreductive surgery represents the cornerstone of the management of
advanced epithelial ovarian cancers (aEOC). Currently, two alternative strategies coexist …

Ovarian cancer and endometriosis are two distinct gynaecological conditions that share
many biological aspects incuding proliferation, invasion of surrounding tissue, inflammation …

Objective: Peritoneal carcinomatosis is a disease's presentation in the advanced stages of
many gynecologic tumours. The distribution and volume of the disease are the main factors …

Background There is an urgent need for more novel and efficacious therapeutic agents and
strategies for the treatment of ovarian cancer-one of the most formidable female …

Simple Summary The current scoring systems fail to reflect the patient's real anatomy, as
seen by the surgeon upon cytoreduction for advanced-stage epithelial ovarian cancer …

Background The surgical peritoneal cancer index (sPCI) is calculated based on a subjective
evaluation of the extent of peritoneal disease during surgery. The pathologic PCI (pPCI) may …