Epidemiological overview, advances in diagnosis, prevention, treatment and management of epithelial ovarian cancer in Mexico

• Main Authors: Dolores Gallardo-Rincón (Author), Raquel Espinosa-Romero (Author), Wendy Rosemary Muñoz (Author), Roberto Mendoza-Martínez (Author), Susana del Villar-Álvarez (Author), Luis Oñate-Ocaña (Author), David Isla-Ortiz (Author), Juan Pablo Márquez-Manríquez (Author), Ángel Apodaca-Cruz (Author), Abelardo Meneses-García (Author)
• Format: Book
• Published: Instituto Nacional de Salud Pública, 2016-03-01T00:00:00Z.
• Subjects: article
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The epithelial ovarian cancer (EOC) has been underdiagnosed because it does not have a specific clinical presentation, and the signs and symptoms are similar to the irritable bowel syn- drome and pelvic inflammatory disease. EOC is less common than breast and cervical cancer, but it is more lethal....