Preoperative predictors of delay in initiation of adjuvant chemotherapy in patients undergoing primary debulking surgery for ovarian cancer

Delay in initiation of chemotherapy affected 23.5% of patients in our study population. Easily identifiable risk factors for chemotherapy delay exist that can help us pre-operatively identify patients for which neoadjuvant chemotherapy may be a better treatment option. Further study into prospective modeling with these identified risk factors is warranted.