What Is the Treatment for Advanced Ovarian Cancer?

What Is the Treatment for Advanced Ovarian Cancer? (0:41)

Surgery and chemotherapy are the common treatments for advanced stage ovarian cancer. In this video, Nimesh Nagarsheth, MD, a gynecolgic oncologist at The Mount Sinai Medical Center, discusses treatment options.

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The main state of treatment and advanced ovarian cancer is surgery and chemotherapy. In the United States, we traditionally start with a side reductive surgery, then it's followed by what we call adjuvant chemotherapy, and that's anywhere from six to eight cycles, and cycles includes more than one chemotherapy agents called combination chemotherapy administered over the course of every three to four weeks for six to eight times.