METHOD OF TREATING RECURRENCES OF OVARIAN CANCER Russian patent published in 2012 - IPC A61N5/10 A61K31/282 A61K31/337 A61P35/00 

FIELD: medicine.

SUBSTANCE: invention relates to medicine, namely to oncology, and can be used for treatment of ovarian cancer recurrences. For this purpose combined courses of subtotal body irradiation (STBI) and chemical therapy (CT) are carried out. STBI is performed with field of diaphragm dome to feet in single dose 0.1 Gy to course dose 1 Gy. CT is carried out immediately after STBI. After each combined course of STBI and CT additionally, after 1-1.5 months course of CT is carried out. After that, after 1-1.5 months entire course of treatment (STBI+CT+CT) is repeated until remission is achieved or total STBI dose not higher than 4 Gy. If after achievement of total STBI dose - 4 Gy, there is no remission, only CT is continued with 1-2 month intervals between courses. All CT courses, performed in the process of treatment are performed with medications from group of taxanes and platinum derivatives.

EFFECT: method ensures increase of remission cases and duration of recurrence-free period in patients due to enhance of cytostatic action onto tumour cells as a result of introduction into treatment scheme of additional courses of chemical therapy between combined courses of STBI and CT, as well as due to reduction of intervals between therapy courses.

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