Chemotherapy With or Without Surgery in Treating Patients With Recurrent Ovarian Cancer

Summary

RATIONALE: Drugs used in chemotherapy use different ways to stop tumor cells from dividing so they stop growing or die. Giving a chemotherapy drug before surgery may shrink the tumor so that it can be removed during surgery. PURPOSE: Randomized phase III trial to study the effectiveness of chemotherapy with or without surgery in treating patients who have recurrent epithelial ovarian cancer.

Timeline

Start

2000-08

Primary completion

2002-10

Completion

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Outcome

Outcome not reported

Stopped (Enrollment): “low accrual”

Drugs

Indications