Age is associated with prognosis in serous ovarian carcinoma

• Main Authors: Fei Deng (Author), Xia Xu (Author), Mengmeng Lv (Author), Binhui Ren (Author), Yan Wang (Author), Wenwen Guo (Author), Jifeng Feng (Author), Xiaoxiang Chen (Author)
• Format: Book
• Published: BMC, 2017-06-01T00:00:00Z.
• Subjects: article
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Abstract Purpose The survival duration of elderly patients with epithelial ovarian carcinoma is shorter than that of their younger counterparts. This variation in survival duration is likely attributed to differences in the distribution of histological type or grade, International Federation of Gyne...