Multidrug Resistance in Ovarian Cancer: Comparing an Immunocytochemical Study and ATP-Tumor Chemosensitivity Assay

Abstract

The aim of our study was to evaluate the possible prognostic and predictive significance of the expression of P-glycoprotein, a transmembrane transport protein related to multidrug resistance, in previously untreated patients with FIGO stage III ovarian cancer; to compare the results of immunocytochemical analysis of tissue sections of tumors to the in vitro chemosensitivity to cytotoxic drug of fresh samples of the same tumors; and to evaluate survival in women who underwent the same surgical treatment and the same adjuvant chemotherapy.