TY - JOUR
T1 - Management of patients with ovarian cancer using monoclonal antibodies
AU - Lastoria, S.
AU - Panza, N.
AU - Esposito, G.
AU - Vergara, E.
AU - Castelli, L.
AU - Caraco, C.
AU - Battista, C.
AU - Pacilio, G.
AU - Salvatore, M.
PY - 1992
Y1 - 1992
N2 - We describe in detail the current trend using monoclonal antibodies to diagnose ovarian cancer either in vitro or in vivo. The approach with such powerful reagents allows to differentiate in vitro tumor histotypes and to detect in peritoneal washings the presence of a few neoplastic cells which characterize the minimal disease. The detection of elevated sera levels of ovarian cancer-associated antigens, such as CA-125 and TAG-72, allows the monitoring, follow-up of these patients and the response to therapy with great accuracy. We focused our attention on the role in vivo of labelled monoclonal antibodies, mainly for diagnostic purposes. Radioimmunoscintigraphy has been found to be more reliable than CT and US to detect foci of disease mainly in patients already treated by surgery, overcoming all the problems usually encountered with these two procedures. radioimmunoscintigraphy / monoclonal antibodies / ovarian tumor.
AB - We describe in detail the current trend using monoclonal antibodies to diagnose ovarian cancer either in vitro or in vivo. The approach with such powerful reagents allows to differentiate in vitro tumor histotypes and to detect in peritoneal washings the presence of a few neoplastic cells which characterize the minimal disease. The detection of elevated sera levels of ovarian cancer-associated antigens, such as CA-125 and TAG-72, allows the monitoring, follow-up of these patients and the response to therapy with great accuracy. We focused our attention on the role in vivo of labelled monoclonal antibodies, mainly for diagnostic purposes. Radioimmunoscintigraphy has been found to be more reliable than CT and US to detect foci of disease mainly in patients already treated by surgery, overcoming all the problems usually encountered with these two procedures. radioimmunoscintigraphy / monoclonal antibodies / ovarian tumor.
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U2 - 10.1016/0753-3322(92)90003-P
DO - 10.1016/0753-3322(92)90003-P
M3 - Article
C2 - 1306360
AN - SCOPUS:0027077843
VL - 46
SP - 453
EP - 463
JO - Biomedicine and Pharmacotherapy
JF - Biomedicine and Pharmacotherapy
SN - 0753-3322
IS - 10
ER -