Are there any new treatments in use or being developed to treat ovarian cancer?
The majority of the information online or otherwise relates mainly to breast cancer. Any information on ovarian cancer would be greatly appreciated. A. The current standard of treatment for ovarian cancer in the United States is surgery followed by chemotherapy with carboplatin and paclitaxel. Although 75 percent of patients will go into a remission from their cancer with this treatment, the majority of them will recur and eventually die from ovarian cancer. This is likely because 75 to 80 percent of the time when ovarian cancer is found, it is already advanced to stage 3 or 4 and has spread throughout the abdomen. If we could find a way to detect it earlier, this could make a big difference in the outcome, because patients who are diagnosed with stage 1 ovarian cancer have a 95 percent chance of cure. There is currently no screening test; however, researchers working in this area think such a test will be available within the next five years. In the meantime, recent clinical trials ha
