[Epithelial ovarian carcinomas: what to do after recurrences?]

Follow up for epithelial ovarian carcinomas is not standardized. A close follow-up every three months during three years, and then twice a year during five years seems to be acceptable. Recurrences after primary treatment of ovarian cancer have very bad prognosis. The major treatment must be chemotherapies. Salvage cytoreduction surgery is effective only in very selected cases.