Impact of improved nutritional status on survival in ovarian cancer
β Scribed by Digant Gupta; Christopher G. Lis; Pankaj G. Vashi; Carolyn A. Lammersfeld
- Publisher
- Springer-Verlag
- Year
- 2009
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 174 KB
- Volume
- 18
- Category
- Article
- ISSN
- 0941-4355
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## Abstract ## BACKGROUND. Epidemiologic studies suggest that obese women are more likely to die of ovarian cancer than those of ideal body weight, but it is not known whether increased incidence, comorbidities common to obese women, or altered tumor biology is responsible for this difference. The