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Saturday, February 06, 2010

Quality of care in advanced ovarian cancer: The importance of provider specialty.



BACKGROUND: One of the cornerstones of ovarian cancer therapy is cytoreductive surgery, which can be performed by surgeons with different specialty training. We examined whether surgeon specialty impacts quality of life (as proxied by presence of ostomy) and overall survival for women with advanced ovarian cancer.