Ovarian cancer

Nature Reviews Disease Primers

Volumn 2, Issue , 2016, Pages 1-22

  Matulonis, Ursula A ^a   Sood, Anil K ^b   Fallowfield, Lesley ^c   Howitt, Brooke E ^d   Sehouli, Jalid ^e   Karlan, Beth Y ^f  

^a DANA FARBER CANCER INSTITUTE   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS MD ANDERSON CANCER CENTER   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF SUSSEX   (United Kingdom)

^d BRIGHAM AND WOMEN S HOSPITAL   (United States)

^e CHARITÉ UNIVERSITÄTSMEDIZIN BERLIN   (Germany)

^f CEDARS SINAI MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTINEOPLASTIC AGENT; ANTINEOPLASTIC HORMONE AGONISTS AND ANTAGONISTS; CISPLATIN DERIVATIVE; ORAL CONTRACEPTIVE AGENT; BRAP PROTEIN, HUMAN; BRCA2 PROTEIN; BRCA2 PROTEIN, HUMAN; CA 125 ANTIGEN; MEMBRANE PROTEIN; MUC16 PROTEIN, HUMAN; PLATINUM; UBIQUITIN PROTEIN LIGASE;

ADJUVANT THERAPY; ARTICLE; CANCER ADJUVANT THERAPY; CANCER EPIDEMIOLOGY; CANCER GENETICS; CANCER HORMONE THERAPY; CANCER INCIDENCE; CANCER MORTALITY; CANCER PREVENTION; CANCER RECURRENCE; CANCER RESISTANCE; CANCER RISK; CANCER SCREENING; CANCER STAGING; CANCER SURGERY; CARCINOGENESIS; CLINICAL FEATURE; CLINICAL TRIAL (TOPIC); CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL (TOPIC); DRUG APPROVAL; FEMALE; HISTOLOGY; HORMONE SUBSTITUTION; HUMAN; MAINTENANCE CHEMOTHERAPY; META ANALYSIS (TOPIC); MOLECULAR PATHOLOGY; OVARY CANCER; PHASE 3 CLINICAL TRIAL (TOPIC); PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUALITY OF LIFE; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL (TOPIC); SYSTEMATIC REVIEW (TOPIC); TUMOR IMMUNITY; TUMOR MICROENVIRONMENT; BLOOD; EARLY CANCER DIAGNOSIS; GENETIC PREDISPOSITION; GENETICS; GYNECOLOGIC SURGERY; MASS SCREENING; OVARIECTOMY; OVARY TUMOR; PARITY; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PHYSIOLOGY; PROCEDURES; RISK FACTOR; STANDARDS; UTERINE TUBE STERILIZATION;

ANTINEOPLASTIC AGENTS; BRCA2 PROTEIN; CA-125 ANTIGEN; CONTRACEPTIVES, ORAL, HORMONAL; EARLY DETECTION OF CANCER; FEMALE; GENETIC PREDISPOSITION TO DISEASE; GYNECOLOGIC SURGICAL PROCEDURES; HUMANS; MASS SCREENING; MEMBRANE PROTEINS; OVARIAN NEOPLASMS; OVARIECTOMY; PARITY; PLATINUM; RISK FACTORS; STERILIZATION, TUBAL; UBIQUITIN-PROTEIN LIGASES;

EID: 85000613195     PISSN: None     EISSN: 2056676X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nrdp.2016.61     Document Type: Article

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