Mucinous cystadenocarcinoma medical therapy
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Editor-In-Chief: C. Michael Gibson, M.S., M.D. [1]; Associate Editor(s)-in-Chief: Ammu Susheela, M.D. [2]
Overview
The main mode of treatment of mucinous cystadenocarcinoma is chemotherapy and radiation.
Medical Therapy
- Primary modality of treatment of mucinous cystadenocarcinoma is surgical resection followed by chemotherapy and radiation.[1]
- Adjuvant therapy after resection of the tumor with positive margins and involved lymph nodes has shown to improves survival. [2]
Reference
- ↑ Ovary Epithelial tumors. Atlasgeneticsoncology (2016).http://atlasgeneticsoncology.org/Tumors/OvaryEpithTumID5230.html Accessed on February 29, 2016
- ↑ McMillan MT, Lewis RS, Drebin JA, Teitelbaum UR, Lee MK, Roses RE, Fraker DL, Vollmer CM (February 2016). "The efficacy of adjuvant therapy for pancreatic invasive intraductal papillary mucinous neoplasm (IPMN)". Cancer. 122 (4): 521–33. doi:10.1002/cncr.29803. PMID 26587698.