Follow-up of patients who are clinically disease-free after primary treatment for fallopian tube, primary peritoneal, and epithelial ovarian cancer /

While the members of the Working Group chose to endorse the wording of the recommendations, the format and organization of the recommendations was altered to align with the PEBC guideline template. [...] The members of the Working Group for this guideline have chosen to reword this recommendation to stress that the limitations and potential harms of routine measurement of CA-125 should be made explicit to patients, and to emphasize that monitoring with CA-125 has not been associated with improvements in survival rate, and may be associated with a decrease in quality of life. [...] Despite these findings, it is the consensus of the members of the Working Group that the benefits of surveillance may outweigh the harms for some women in this patient population and, thus, the option of regular follow-up may be offered. [...] Other members of the GDG served as the Expert Panel and were responsible for the review and approval of the draft document produced by the Working Group. [...] Synthesizing the Evidence As the members of the Working Group were aware prior to the initiation of the search that the number of studies in this field is very limited, a meta-analysis was not planned.