Survival rate of ovarian cancer in Asian countries: a systematic review and meta-analysis.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Ovarian cancer is amongst one of the most commonly occurring cancers affecting women, and the leading cause of gynecologic related cancer death. Its poor prognosis and high mortality rates can be attributed to the absence of specific signs and symptoms until advance stages, which frequently leads to late diagnosis. Survival rate of patients diagnosed with ovarian cancer can be used in order to better assess current standard of care; the aim of this study is to evaluate the survival rate of ovarian cancer patients in Asia.

Methods

Systematic review was performed on articles that were published by the end of August 2021 in five international databases, including Medline / PubMed, ProQuest, Scopus, Web of Knowledge, and Google Scholar. The Newcastle-Ottawa quality ev

SUBMITTER: Maleki Z 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10276364 | biostudies-literature | 2023 Jun

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature