The impact of thrombocytosis on the long term outcomes in relapsed ovarian cancer

Abstract

The presence of thrombocytosis has been widely associated with poor prognostic in patients diagnosed with ovarian cancer at the time of the initial diagnostic. Once this fact has been widely accepted, attention was focused on studying whether this biological parameter could be also a diagnostic tool for identifying patients with poorer outcomes at the time of secondary cytoreduction. Therefore the most commonly encountered questions are whether patients presenting thrombocytosis at the time of primary cytoreduction are expected to have also thrombocytosis at the time of relapse and if thrombocytosis at the time relapse is corelated with lower disease free intervals, with higher rates of incomplete debulking and with poorer rates of overall survival respectively. This is a literature review of the most relevant studies conducted on this issue.

Keywords

• relapsed ovarian cancer
• thrombocytosis
• secondary cytoreduction
• survival