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Abstract
Introduction/Background To assess the safety of fertility sparing treatments for early-stage ovarian cancer in women younger than 45 years.
Methodology We performed a retrospective multicenter study including women from 18 to 45 years old diagnosed of early-stage (FIGO I-II) ovarian cancer in 55 Spanish hospitals, from January 2010 to December 2019. Benign and borderline tumors were excluded, as well as advanced-stage (FIGO III-IV). All perioperative characteristics and follow-up were collected and analyzed. Standard staging surgery (SSS) was compared to fertility sparing surgery (FSS) in terms of oncological outcomes.
Kaplan Meier survival based on histology and type of surgery
Results A total of 630 women were included; 546 (86.7%) were stage I. The median tumor size was 94 mm (IQR 25–75: 60–139). The median patients´ age was 38.7 years old (IQR 25–75: 33.4–42.7) with a median body mass index of 23.6 kg/m2 (IQR 25–75: 21.2–27.7). Among all patients, 469 (74.4%) underwent SSS and 161 (25.6%) FSS. Up to 351 patients (56.3%) did not have children, but only 12 (1.92%) had oocyte preservation before treatment. Patients in the FSS group compared to SSS group showed a non- significant difference in recurrences (8.7% vs. 11.8%, respectively; p=0.31) and deaths (1.2% vs. 5.5%, respectively; p=0.087) during the follow-up. No significant differences were found between epithelial and non-epithelial ovarian cancer both in recurrences (9.1% vs. 8.3%, respectively; p=0–998) and deaths (4% vs. 3.6%, respectively; p=0.997) among patients who underwent FSS.
Conclusion FSS seems a safe option for treatment of early-stage ovarian cancer in patients who want to preserve fertility; either for epithelial and non-epithelial histology.
Disclosures None