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Sunday, May 27, 2012

Time to Ovarian Cancer Return Not Tied to BMI - in Meeting Coverage, ASCO from MedPage Today



Medical News: Time to Ovarian Cancer Return Not Tied to BMI - in Meeting Coverage, ASCO from MedPage Today


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  • Note that this study was published as an abstract and will be presented at a conference. These data and conclusions should be considered to be preliminary until published in a peer-reviewed journal.
  • A study found that obesity did not affect recurrence, time to recurrence, or progression-free survival in women with epithelial ovarian cancer following surgery and adjuvant chemotherapy without evidence of disease during treatment.
  • Note that the approximately one-third of patients who had BMI >30 kg/m2 had similar recurrence rates and time to recurrence as the two-thirds of non-obese patients.

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