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Survival in ovarian cancer patients by histology and family history.
Acta oncologica (Stockholm, Sweden) - 1 Jan 2008
Ji Jianguang, Försti Asta, Sundquist Jan, Lenner Per, Hemminki Kari
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INTRODUCTION: Earlier studies suggest that histology has no prognostic significance in patients with invasive ovarian tumors. Studies about the effect of family history on survival have given conflicting results, which we try to clarify in this study. As an additional question, we examined whether family members share survival experience. METHODS: We used the nation-wide Swedish Family-Cancer Database to estimate...
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