title: [Clinical practice guidelines 2008 for the surgical treatment, medical first-line and consolidation treatments of patients with epithelial ovarian cancer--update. According to the methodology of Standards, Options: Recommendations (SOR)].
abstract: BACKGROUND
  Ovarian cancers represent the 4th cause of mortality by cancer for women in France and were responsible of more than 3,000 deaths in 2005. The Standards, Options: Recommendations (SOR) project has been undertaken by the French National Federation of Cancers Centers is now part of the French National Cancer Institute since the 1st of may 2008. The project involves the development and updating of evidence-based clinical practice guidelines (CPG) in oncology. Following the monitoring process, we identified new data conferring sufficient elements to justify an updating of the CPG concerning the surgical, the medical fi rst-line and consolidation treatments of epithelial ovarian cancers.
  
  
  OBJECTIVE
  To update the CPG according to the methodology SOR.
authors.affiliation: Institut Gustave-Roussy, 94805 Villejuif, France.
authors.forename: Catherine
authors.initials: C
authors.lastname: Lhommé
authors.forename: Philippe
authors.initials: P
authors.lastname: Morice
authors.forename: François
authors.initials: F
authors.lastname: Planchamp
authors.forename: Emile
authors.initials: E
authors.lastname: Daraï
authors.forename: Florence
authors.initials: F
authors.lastname: Joly
authors.forename: Eric
authors.initials: E
authors.lastname: Leblanc
authors.forename: Jean-Pierre
authors.initials: JP
authors.lastname: Lefranc
authors.forename: Denis
authors.initials: D
authors.lastname: Querleu
mesh_terms: D017024:Chemotherapy, Adjuvant; D005260:Female; D005602:France; D006801:Humans; D009367:Neoplasm Staging; D009375:Neoplasms, Glandular and Epithelial / Q000473:pathology / Q000601:surgery / Q000628:therapy*; D010051:Ovarian Neoplasms / Q000473:pathology / Q000601:surgery / Q000628:therapy*; D018714:Radiotherapy, Adjuvant