Therapeutic Targeting of Stress Factors in Ovarian Cancer Patients

Exclusion Criteria

• •Patients who receive neoadjuvant chemotherapy for their ovarian, primary peritoneal, or fallopian tube cancer are excluded.
• •Patients with a prior diagnosis of a borderline tumor that was surgically resected and who subsequently develop an unrelated new invasive epithelial ovarian, primary peritoneal, or fallopian tube cancer are eligible, provided that they have not received chemotherapy for any tumor
• •Patients who have received prior radiotherapy to any portion of the abdominal cavity or pelvis are excluded. Prior radiation therapy for localized cancer of the breast, head and neck, or skin is permitted provided that it was completed more than 3 years prior to registration, and the patient remains free of recurrent or metastatic disease
• •Patients with a past history of primary endometrial cancer are excluded unless all of the following conditions are met: stage not greater than stage IA; no more than superficial myometrial invasion, without vascular or lymphatic invasion; no poorly differentiated subtypes, including papillary serous, clear cell, or other FIGO grade 3 lesions.
• •With the exception of non-melanoma skin cancer and other specific malignancies as noted above, patients with other invasive malignancies who had (or have) any evidence of the other cancer present with the last five years or whose previous cancer treatment contraindicates this protocol therapy are excluded.
• •Use of systemic glucocorticoids such as Prednisone or Decadron in the last month
• •Inability to accurately answer questions (e.g. dementia, brain metastases) or speak English
• •Cirrhosis of the liver
• •Patients with a GOG Performance status 3 or 4
• •Patients under the age of 18
• •Comorbid conditions: Addison's disease, autoimmune hepatitis, hepatitis B, hepatitis C, AIDS or HIV, lupus erythematosus, mixed connective tissue disease, rheumatoid arthritis
• •Any patients already on beta-blockers or contraindicated to receive beta-blockers
• •Post-operative Eligibility Criteria:
• •Patients who have received targeted therapy (including but not limited to vaccines, antibodies, tyrosine kinase inhibitors) or hormonal therapy for management of their primary peritoneal, ovarian, or fallopian tube cancer. Patients cannot receive concurrent bevacizumab or other targeted therapy as part of their primary chemotherapy.
• •Patients with non-epithelial ovarian tumors that do not require adjuvant chemotherapy, borderline epithelial ovarian tumor, or recurrent invasive epithelial ovarian, low grade ovarian cancer, primary peritoneal, or fallopian tube cancer treated with surgery only (such as patients with stage IA or IB)
• •Patients with a synchronous primary endometrial cancer are excluded unless all of the following conditions are met: stage not greater than stage IA; no more than superficial myometrial invasion, without vascular or lymphatic invasion; no poorly differentiated subtypes, including papillary serous, clear cell, or other FIGO grade 3 lesions
• •Metastases to the ovaries from other organs except fallopian tube or primary peritoneal carcinoma