Prognostic significance of mesenteric lymph node involvement in advanced stage ovarian cancer

Abstract

Although multiple studies have been conducted so far on the issue of advanced stage ovarian cancer, the overall prognostic of these patients reports a wide variety even in cases in which complete debulking surgery is feasible. Therefore, attention was focused on identifying other prognostic markers which might influence the long term outcomes of these patients. In this paper special attention was focused on studying the impact of mesenteric lymph node involvement in advanced stage ovarian cancer.

Keywords

• advanced stage ovarian cancer
• mesenteric involvement
• lymph node metastases
• prognostic