## Effect of Obesity on Survival in Epithelial Ovarian Cancer I n a recent report in Cancer, Pavelka et al described a provocative association between obesity and inferior survival in patients with stage III/IV ovarian cancer. 1 Although the authors acknowledged the limitations of their retrospect
Effect of obesity on survival in epithelial ovarian cancer
✍ Scribed by Karsten Münstedt; Richard von Georgi; Folker E. Franke
- Publisher
- John Wiley and Sons
- Year
- 2007
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 36 KB
- Volume
- 109
- Category
- Article
- ISSN
- 0008-543X
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