Local 12: Chemotherapy in recurrent ovarian cancer patients

UC researcher publishes New England Journal of Medicine study looking at outcomes

The five-year survival rate for ovarian cancer is only 36%, one of the worst cancer survival rates out there.

Finding the right treatments, however, is critical to changing that survival rate, according to Dr. Thomas Herzog, a professor at UC and gynecologic oncologist with UC Health. His team just released a study in the New England Journal of Medicine comparing those who just had chemotherapy with a recurrent cancer and those who had chemotherapy in addition to surgery when the cancer came back.

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