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- Abstract:
- Fewer than 30% of new diagnoses for ovarian cancer are "early stage" (stages I and II) cancers. The standard of care for early stage ovarian cancers (EOCs) is oophorectomy with complete surgical staging (bilateral lymphadenectomy, peritoneal and pelvic washings, and omental sampling). Recent research has revealed wide variation in adherence with these standards, with <50% of women in one study receiving the indicated lymphadenectomy. Inadequate staging has significant treatment implications because Gynecology Oncology Group (GOG) studies have demonstrated a survival benefit in chemotherapy for high-risk EOCs (stage IC, stage II, and all grade III cancers) but not for lower-risk EOCs.
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- Scholarly concentration: Medical Education
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Occhiogrosso, Rachel H., Steinhoff, Margaret M., Raker, Christine, et al.,
"Determining prognostic factors for recurrence and survival for early stage ovarian cancer patients"
(2016).
Scholarly Concentrations Program Collection of Abstracts.
Brown Digital Repository. Brown University Library.
https://doi.org/10.26300/4jwn-gk98
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Scholarly Concentrations Program Collection of Abstracts
...Each spring the Warren Alpert Medical School of Brown University Scholarly Concentrations Program (SCP) publishes a print volume of abstracts written by medical students in the SCP and their mentors that describes the research projects that they collaborated on over …