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Monday, January 12, 2009

The effect of obesity on survival in patients with ovarian cancer (repost from 2008)



Conclusion

Although obesity has been reported as an independent prognostic factor for survival, this data demonstrates that survival rates are similar between obese and non-obese patients when optimal debulking statuses are the same. Therefore, maximal effort should be directed towards optimal debulking obese patients with EOC.

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