Ultrasound evaluation of ovarian cancer response to neoadjuvant chemotherapy at the first stage of combined treatment

Tumor volume and vascularity were assessed at B-mode ultrasound and color Doppler mapping with the use of Logiq S6. Thirty two patients with diagnosed epithelial ovarian cancer of the stage III, morphological types of the tumor as serous, mucinous, endometrial and tumor grades from G1 to G3-4 were examined. All of them underwent combined treatment: chemotherapy + surgery + chemotherapy. Administration of neoadjuvant chemotherapy was made with the time interval 21 days, ovarian tumor was monitored by ultrasound before the treatment and after every chemotherapy administration.