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Ovarian cancer: an overview of treatment options.

Martin VR

Fox Chase Cancer Center, Philadelphia, PA, USA. vr_martin@fccc.edu

Ovarian cancer is the most lethal gynecologic cancer. Early-stage diagnosis is difficult, and chemotherapy treatments often are not durable. Despite challenges, progress has been made since the 1990s; healthcare professionals now have an increased understanding of the disease biology and can identify hereditary ovarian cancer and provide screening recommendations. The recognized importance of complete staging, cytoreductive surgery, and new effective treatments has made an improvement in five-year survival.

Published 18 June 2007 in Clin J Oncol Nurs, 11(2): 201-7.
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