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ABSTRACT: Background
Surgery is the backbone of early-stage ovarian cancer (OC) management. However, in practice, there is disagreement about the extent of surgical staging and whether additional adjuvant treatment should be provided. As omitting relevant diagnostic or therapeutic procedures might lead to undertreatment, we aimed to structurally investigate treatment practice in addition to prognostic factors in a multicentre series of patients (pts) diagnosed with early-stage OC.Patients
Within this retrospective, multicentre study, medical records of 379 pts who had undergone surgery for suspected early-stage OC between January 2014 and March 2020 were analysed.Results
Of the 379 patients, 292 had pT stage 1a-2a and had complete data on the extent of surgical staging. At le
SUBMITTER: Heublein S
PROVIDER: S-EPMC10093615 | biostudies-literature | 2023 Mar
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature