Ovarian cancer patients with "node-positive-only" Stage IIIC disease have a more favorable outcome than Stage IIIA/B

Gynecologic Oncology

Volumn 107, Issue 1, 2007, Pages 154-156

  Ferrandina, G ^a,b   Legge, F ^b   Petrillo, M ^a   Salutari, V ^a   Scambia, G ^a,b  

^a CATHOLIC UNIVERSITY   (Italy)

^b CATHOLIC UNIVERSITY   (Italy)

Author keywords

Lymph nodes; Ovarian cancer; Staging

Indexed keywords

PACLITAXEL; PLATINUM;

BIOPSY; CANCER PATIENT; CANCER STAGING; CANCER SURVIVAL; HUMAN; HYSTERECTOMY; LETTER; LYMPH NODE METASTASIS; LYMPHADENECTOMY; OVARY CANCER; PARAAORTIC LYMPH NODE; PERITONEUM METASTASIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SALPINGOOOPHORECTOMY; TREATMENT OUTCOME; TUMOR VOLUME;

FEMALE; HUMANS; LYMPH NODE EXCISION; LYMPHATIC METASTASIS; NEOPLASM METASTASIS; NEOPLASM STAGING; OVARIAN NEOPLASMS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 34748902355     PISSN: 00908258     EISSN: 10956859     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ygyno.2007.05.016     Document Type: Letter

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