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Recent progress in the diagnosis and treatment of ovarian cancer.
CA: a cancer journal for clinicians - 1 Jan 2000
Jelovac Danijela, Armstrong Deborah K
Abstract excerpt
Epithelial ovarian cancer is the most lethal of the gynecologic malignancies, largely due to the advanced stage at diagnosis in most patients. Screening strategies using ultrasound and the cancer antigen (CA) 125 tumor marker are currently under study and may lower stage at diagnosis but have not yet been shown to improve survival. Women who have inherited a deleterious mutation in the BRCA1 or BRCA2 gene and...
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