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Randomized Trial of Systematic Lymphadenectomy
Most cases of ovarian cancer are diagnosed at advanced stages, and survival rates are low. A key component of treatment is surgery to remove as much tumor as possible, but whether surgery should include systematic removal of retroperitoneal lymph nodes has been less clear. In this issue, Benedetti Panici et al. (p. 560) report the results of a randomized trial of 427 women with advanced ovarian cancer treated with cytoreductive surgery plus systematic aortic and pelvic lymphadenectomy or with cytoreductive surgery only. After a median follow-up of more than 5.5 years, women in the systematic
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