“…24 Many factors contribute to the development of perioperative infections in patients with ovarian cancer after cytoreductive surgery, including the microorganism, the environment, and host defense mechanisms, while ovarian cancer patients frequently undergo extensive, prolonged, and highly invasive surgery, experience significant blood loss, have received preoperative chemoradiotherapy, and have primary or secondary hypoimmunity. 17 In the present study, the rate of perioperative infections in patients with ovarian cancer after primary cytoreductive surgery was higher (18.9%) than previously reported, 3,17,18 suggesting the need to take preventive preoperative and perioperative actions to reduce the rate of perioperative infections in these patients in our hospital.…”