Epithelial ovarian cancer metastasizing to the brain: A late manifestation of the disease with an increasing incidence

Journal of Clinical Oncology

Volumn 20, Issue 4, 2002, Pages 982-986

  Kolomainen, Desiree F ^a   Larkin, James M G ^a   Badran, Mohammad ^a   A'Hern, Roger P ^a   Michael King, D ^a   Fisher, Cyril ^a   Bridges, Jane E ^a   Blake, Peter R ^a   Barton, Desmond P J ^a   Shepherd, John H ^a   Kaye, Stanley B ^a   Gore, Martin E ^a  

^a ROYAL MARSDEN HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

PLATINUM;

ADULT; ADVANCED CANCER; AGED; ARTICLE; BRAIN METASTASIS; CANCER INCIDENCE; CANCER RECURRENCE; CANCER SURVIVAL; CLINICAL FEATURE; FEMALE; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; ONSET AGE; OVARY CANCER; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TUMOR LOCALIZATION;

ADULT; AGE OF ONSET; AGED; ANTINEOPLASTIC COMBINED CHEMOTHERAPY PROTOCOLS; BRAIN NEOPLASMS; CARCINOMA; DISEASE-FREE SURVIVAL; DRUG RESISTANCE, NEOPLASM; FEMALE; HUMANS; MIDDLE AGED; OVARIAN NEOPLASMS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES;

EID: 0037083595     PISSN: 0732183X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1200/JCO.20.4.982     Document Type: Article

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