This is a randomized, placebo controlled; parallel study that will be conducted on 66 female patients with advanced epithelial ovarian carcinoma (stage III and stage IV). The staging of the disease will be done according to 8th edition of American Joint Committee on Cancer (AJCC), TNM staging. The patients will be recruited from Oncology Department, Tanta University Hospital. The patients will receive a combination of paclitaxel and carboplatin chemotherapy with or without itraconazole. Randomization will be carried out based on hospital admission days where the patients will be randomized into the following two groups to compare effect of adding Itraconazole to paclitaxel and carboplatin versus placebo to paclitaxel and carboplatin.
This is a randomized, placebo controlled; parallel study that will be conducted on 66 female patients with advanced epithelial ovarian carcinoma (stage III and stage IV) to compare effect of adding Itraconazole to paclitaxel and carboplatin versus placebo to paclitaxel and carboplatin as regard overall response rate (ORR) and Disease control rate (DCR) and Quality of life (QOL) and the change in the serum concentrations of the biological markers.