Pretreatment thrombocytosis as an independent predictive factor for chemoresistance and poor survival in epithelial ovarian cancer

• Main Authors: Sari Nakao (Author), Takeo Minaguchi (Author), Hiroya Itagaki (Author), Yoshihiko Hosokawa (Author), Ayumi Shikama (Author), Nobutaka Tasaka (Author), Azusa Akiyama (Author), Hiroyuki Ochi (Author), Koji Matsumoto (Author), Toyomi Satoh (Author)
• Format: Book
• Published: BMC, 2020-05-01T00:00:00Z.
• Subjects: article
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Abstract Background Thrombocytosis is related to tumor stage and survival in ovarian cancer in addition to the common complications of malignant diseases, such as anemia and inflammation. The aim of our study was to clarify the precise prognostic impact of pretreatment thrombocytosis in epithelial o...