title: [Importance of clinical prognostic factors in the treatment of ovarian carcinoma].
abstract: OBJECTIVE
  To present a review of clinical prognostic factors in ovarian cancer.
  
  
  METHODS
  Review.
  
  
  METHODS
  Department of Obstetrics and Gynaecology, Medical Faculty Hradec Králové, Charles University, Prague; Department of Clinical Oncology, Medical Faculty Hradec Králové, Charles University, Prague; Bristol-Myers Squibb, Department of Oncology, Prague.
  
  
  METHODS
  Discussion about current evidence from literature.
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  Epithelial ovarian cancers are characterized by a broad spectrum of biological behavior ranging from tumors that have an excellent prognosis and high likelihood of cure to those that progress rapidly and have a very poor prognosis. This wide clinical spectrum is partly reflected by a number of clinical prognostic variables. The most important of these clinical factors is stage, volume of residual tumor remaining after surgical resection, performance status and age, interval between end of primary therapy and beginning of recurrence, drug resistance.
authors.affiliation: Klinika porodnictví a gynekologie, UK, LF v Hradci Králové.
authors.forename: J
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Spacek
authors.forename: J
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Petera
authors.forename: Z
authors.initials: Z
authors.lastname: Tesarík
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D000367:Age Factors; D002277:Carcinoma / Q000473:pathology / Q000628:therapy*; D004351:Drug Resistance; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008875:Middle Aged; D010051:Ovarian Neoplasms / Q000473:pathology / Q000628:therapy*; D011379:Prognosis