For many years ovarian cancer (OC) has remained the leading cause of mortality from gynecological cancer diseases. The problem of late diagnosis of ovarian cancer remains still unresolved in more than 70% of patients when the diagnosis is established at advanced stages. The standard approach to the treatment of patients is to perform surgical removal of the tumor at the first stage, which often pursues both therapeutic and diagnostic purposes, as it allows performing the disease restaging and assessing its prevalence. To date, the question of the relevance of implementation and the extent of lymph node dissection still remains open. In this regard, in this article, we want to present the available evidence base regarding the use of the performing retroperitoneal lymph node dissection in advanced OC patients.
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