Ovarian Cancer Surgery: Heed This LION’s Roar

February 2019 in “ The New England Journal of Medicine ”

Eric L. Eisenhauer, S. Dennis

Studysummary This abstract discusses the importance of controlling visible abdominal tumors in women with ovarian cancer to improve survival, and notes that nonvisible microscopic tumors are then targeted with chemotherapy; it reports no new results.

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