Adjuvant platinum-based chemotherapy in patients with epithelial ovarian cancer: prognostic factors and final outcome.

Purpose: epithelial ovarian cancer (OVCA) prognosis depends on the clinical stage, histological grade and surgical cytoreduction. Our goal was to retrospectively analyze several prognostic factors in relation with the final outcome in patients with OVCA subjected to adjuvant platinum (PL)- based chemotherapy (CT).

Methods: three hundred OVCA patients were treated at the Department of Medical Oncology A', "Metaxa" Cancer Hospital, between 11/1989-3/2010.