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Survival and prognostic factors of early ovarian cancer

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Survival and prognostic factors were analysed in 150 patients with histologically confirmed epithelial ovarian cancer stage IA-IIA. The relapse-free and overall survival rates were, respectively, 81% and 88% after 3 and 74% and 84% after 5 years. The analysis of various prognostic factors indicates as the main factor the grade differentiation of the tumour.

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Villa, A., Parazzini, F., Acerboni, S. et al. Survival and prognostic factors of early ovarian cancer. Br J Cancer 77, 123–124 (1998). https://doi.org/10.1038/bjc.1998.19

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