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Maintenance therapy in ovarian cancer: Molecular basis and therapeutic approach (Review)

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    • Monica Binaschi
    • Cecilia Simonelli
    • Cristina Goso
    • Mario Bigioni
    • Carlo Alberto Maggi
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    Affiliations: Department of Pharmacology, Menarini Ricerche, Pomezia, Rome, Italy, Clinical Research Menarini Ricerche, Florence, Italy, Department of Pharmacology, Menarini Ricerche, Florence, Italy
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Abstract

Ovarian cancer has the highest mortality rate among gynaecological tumours despite the fact that the majority of patients with advanced disease achieve complete remission after first-line surgery and chemotherapy. Unfortunately, disease recurrence occurs in the majority of patients and second-line treatments are not curative. Clearly, the persistence of dormant and drug-resistant cells after front-line treatments results in the inability to cure the disease. The identification of cancer-initiating cells or cancer stem cells as key players in the development of recurrence has opened up a novel field of research aimed at identifying additional innovative therapeutic approaches. Strategies of maintenance therapy to extend the survival of patients have been studied, but to date no overall survival benefit has been detected. Currently, numerous clinical trials have just been completed or are ongoing involving patients achieving a complete clinical response after first-line chemotherapy in order to evaluate the efficacy of different therapeutic approaches in terms of disease-free survival and overall survival. At the 2010 ASCO meeting, the first positive results of a phase III clinical trial in this setting were presented: bevacizumab (15 mg/kg i.v. every 21 days) added to first-line chemotherapy and continued for an additional 15 cycles was found to prolong progression-free survival of 3.8 months in comparison to 6 cycles of chemotherapy alone or only 6 cycles of chemotherapy plus bevacizumab. In addition, positive results were announced for a second phase III trial testing bevacizumab in the same setting, but at half dose. The final assessment of the overall clinical benefit and the approval of bevacizumab in maintenance therapy by regulatory agencies is expected to be positive, as are the final results of abagovomab phase III trial MIMOSA, another antibody-based therapy tested as a maintenance treatment for advanced ovarian cancer patients. Encouraging preliminary results confirming the safety profile and the immunogenic activity of abagovomab were presented at the last ASCO meeting. The final results are expected to be released in the first half of 2011.
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Binaschi, M., Simonelli, C., Goso, C., Bigioni, M., Maggi, C. A."Maintenance therapy in ovarian cancer: Molecular basis and therapeutic approach (Review)". Experimental and Therapeutic Medicine 2, no. 2 (2011): 173-180. https://doi.org/10.3892/etm.2011.192
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