Trials
November 2023
Background: Endometriosis is a chronic disease characterized by growth of endometrial tissue outside the uterine cavity which could affect 200 million women (The term "woman" is used for convenience. Individuals gendered as man or as nonbinary can also suffer from this disease) worldwide. One of the most common symptoms of endometriosis is pelvic chronic pain associated with fatigue.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFComplete surgical removal of lesions improves survival of peritoneal carcinomatosis and can be enhanced by intraoperative near-infrared fluorescence imaging. Indocyanine green (ICG) is the only near-infrared fluorescent dye approved for clinical use, but it lacks specificity for tumor cells, highlighting the need for tumor-selective targeting agents. We compared the tumor-specific near-infrared fluorescent probes Bevacizumab-IRDye 800CW and Angiostamp800, which target tumor angiogenesis and cancer cells, to ICG for fluorescence-guided surgery in peritoneal carcinomatosis of ovarian origin.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFAdvanced ovarian cancer is the most serious among gynecological malignancies and is associated with 35% five-year overall survival. Surgery is the first therapeutic indication, and the absence of remaining macroscopic lesions is the most important prognostic factor. However, tumor dissemination over the whole abdominal cavity largely contributes to the difficulty of complete surgical resection.
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