The Role of Secondary Surgery in Recurrent Ovarian Cancer

Table 2

Multivariate analysis for survival.

	Zang	Eisenkop	Tay	Zang	Onda	Pfisterer	Ayhan
	[16]	[13]	[15]	[16]	[17]	[19]	[20]
n	60	106	46	107	44	267	64
Age		Ns		Ns	Ns		Ns
PS		Ns			Ns		Ns
Initial FIGO	Ns		Ns	Ns	Ns		Ns
Grade	Ns	Ns	Ns				Ns
Histology	Ns			0.017	Ns		0.005
RD after primary surgery				Ns	Ns		0.003
DFI	0.0116	0.005	0.001			<0.001	0.003
RD after secondary surgery	0.0041	0.007	0.002			<0.001	0.04
Disease localization		Ns			0.013
No disease sites					<0.001
Largest tumor diameter	Ns	0.04			<0.001
Ascites^1	0.0191	Ns			Ns	0.012
Ca 125^1		Ns
No cycles chemo^2	Ns
Chemo^2	Ns	0.001

Ns: not significant, RD: residual disease, DFI: disease-free interval.
¹At secondary surgery.
²Prior to secondary surgery.