[Impact of special treatment methods on life quality and lifespan of patients with widespread forms of ovarian cancer].

The experience of the treatment of 138 patients with widespread forms of ovarian cancer within the period of 1998 to 2002 is described. The efficacies of the palliative treatment methods in improvement of the life quality and increase of the lifespan of the patients were compared. The results showed that combination of the chemotherapy with the subsequent citoreductive surgical interventions was advantageous. Such a treatment provided not only increase of the average lifespan of the patients from 13 to 23 months but also improvement of the life quality in 77.8% of the cases.