About Ovarian Cancer Radiotherapy

  Patient: First hospitalization at the end of June 10, when CA125 was 3359, chemotherapy with paclitaxel and carboplatin for the second time CA125 dropped to 838, surgery, and chemotherapy with paclitaxel and carboplatin for 8 times, CA125 was 26 in the 7th postoperative check, and rose to 37 after chemotherapy for the eighth time, and changed the regimen to docetaxel and oxaliplatin chemotherapy. The Second People’s Hospital of Liaocheng City felt good about the preliminary effect, but after the 5th course of postoperative chemotherapy, CA125 was 38, 37, 26, 37. It felt that CA125 dropped very slowly. And the reaction to the drug was also very strong, and my mother did not want to have chemotherapy anymore because she was suffering. One doctor said that we can do enhanced CT and then radiotherapy. I think the tumor may be very small, so I think it is better to use radiotherapy to kill such a small tumor and stimulate the whole body with chemotherapy drugs. I would like to hear your opinion.  Wenxin Liu, Department of Gynecologic Oncology, Tianjin Cancer Hospital: Ovarian cancer cells can easily spread and grow in the abdominopelvic cavity, and rarely form limited lesions. Therefore, unless there are local isolated lesions, radiotherapy is not suitable for ovarian cancer in general.