Symptoms of ovarian cancer - Where to set the bar?

JAMA

Volumn 291, Issue 22, 2004, Pages 2755-2756

  Daly, Mary B ^a   Ozols, Robert F ^a  

^a FOX CHASE CANCER CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ABDOMEN; CANCER DIAGNOSIS; CANCER SCREENING; DISEASE SEVERITY; EDITORIAL; FEMALE; GYNECOLOGIC CANCER; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MENSTRUAL CYCLE; OVARY CANCER; OVARY DISEASE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SYMPTOMATOLOGY; URINARY TRACT; NOTE; OVARY TUMOR; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY;

FEMALE; HUMANS; OVARIAN NEOPLASMS;

EID: 2642544994     PISSN: 00987484     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1001/jama.291.22.2755     Document Type: Editorial

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