The trend of chemotherapy-induced peripheral neurotoxicity in ovarian cancer survivors and its impacts on daily life during and one year after treatment.

CONCLUSIONS: A significant proportion of patients with epithelial ovarian cancer treated with carboplatin plus paclitaxel suffer long term neuropathy and it affects patient's daily activities. Specialized care is necessary to provide not only during treatment, but also months to years after drugs withdrawal. PMID: 29787013 [PubMed - in process]
Source: European Journal of Gynaecological Oncology - Category: OBGYN Tags: Eur J Gynaecol Oncol Source Type: research