Bowel obstruction in advanced tubo-ovarian cancer: a retrospective cohort study.

Tubo-ovarian cancer patients with MBO have a poor prognosis: 85% of the study population died within a relatively short time interval since the first MBO. In our study population, the majority of patients with MBO were treated conservatively. Both palliative chemotherapy and palliative surgical management are considerable treatment options depending on the individual patient profile.