Fertility sparing treatment in borderline ovarian tumours.

Content Provider	Europe PMC
Author	Alvarez, Rosa Maria Vazquez-Vicente, Daniel
Copyright Year	2014
Abstract	Borderline ovarian tumours are low malignant potential tumours. They represent 10–15% of all epithelial ovarian malignancies. Patients with this type of tumour are younger at the time of diagnosis than patients with invasive ovarian cancer. Most of them are diagnosed in the early stages and have an excellent prognosis. It has been quite clearly established that the majority of borderline ovarian tumours should be managed with surgery alone. Because a high proportion of women with this malignancy are young and the prognosis is excellent, the preservation of fertility is an important issue in the management of these tumours. In this systemic review of the literature, we have evaluated in-depth oncological safety and reproductive outcomes in women with borderline ovarian tumours treated with fertility-sparing surgery, reviewing the indications, benefits, and disadvantages of each type of conservative surgery, as well as new alternative options to surgery to preserve fertility.
Journal	ecancermedicalscience
Volume Number	9
PubMed Central reference number	PMC4335965
PubMed reference number	25729420
e-ISSN	17546605
DOI	10.3332/ecancer.2015.507
Language	English
Publisher	Cancer Intelligence
Publisher Date	2015-02-03
Access Restriction	Open
Rights License	This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited. © the authors; licensee ecancermedicalscience.
Subject Keyword	borderline ovarian tumours fertility-sparing surgery conservative treatment
Content Type	Text
Resource Type	Article
Subject	Oncology Cancer Research