Journal of Clinical Gynecology and Obstetrics, ISSN 1927-1271 print, 1927-128X online, Open Access
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Original Article

Volume 7, Number 2, June 2018, pages 31-36


Ovarian Cancer: Post-Relapse Survival and Prognostic Factors

Figures

Figure 1.
Figure 1. Case post-relapse survival. The median of post-relapse survival (PRS) was 32.3 months.
Figure 2.
Figure 2. Relationship between histology and post-relapse survival. Tumor histology was significantly associated with PRS (P < 0.001). With the Bonferroni correction, there were significant differences in PRS recognized between serous adenocarcinoma and mucinous adenocarcinoma (P < 0.05).
Figure 3.
Figure 3. Post-relapse survival: comparison between treatment-free interval (TFI) of less or more than 6 months. Patients with a TFI of less than 6 months had a significantly worse prognosis than those with a TFI of more than 6 months (P < 0.001).
Figure 4.
Figure 4. Post-relapse survival is related to the number of recurrent lesions. Patients with multiple recurrent lesions had a significantly worse prognosis than those with a solitary lesion (P = 0.029).
Figure 5.
Figure 5. Post-relapse survival: comparison between the use and non-use of chemotherapy. Patients treated with chemotherapy showed significantly better prognosis than patients not treated with chemotherapy (P < 0.001). No trend was recognized between the number of chemotherapy regimens used and PRS.
Figure 6.
Figure 6. Post-relapse survival: comparison between chemotherapy with or without bevacizumab. Combining chemotherapy with bevacizumab does not improve PRS over chemotherapy-alone (P = 0.951).

Table

Table 1. Post-Relapse Survival: Multivariate Analysis With Cox Proportional Hazards Regression
 
CovariantHazard ratio95% CIP-value
TFI: treatment-free interval.
Mucinous histology15.0911.314 - 173.20.029
TFI within 6 months4.8062.093 - 11.0350.0002
Solitary recurrent lesion0.1260.025 - 0.6310.011
No chemotherapy9.0921.850 - 44.670.007