Recent Advances in Understanding, Diagnosing, and Treating Ovarian Cancer

Ovarian cancer, a term that encompasses ovarian, fallopian, and peritoneal cancers, is the leading cause of gynecologic cancer mortality. To improve patient outcomes, the field is currently focused on defining the mechanisms of cancer formation and spread, early diagnosis and prevention, and develop...

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Autores principales: Mills, Kathryn, Fuh, Katherine
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: F1000Research 2017
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5288682/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/28184293
http://dx.doi.org/10.12688/f1000research.9977.1
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description Ovarian cancer, a term that encompasses ovarian, fallopian, and peritoneal cancers, is the leading cause of gynecologic cancer mortality. To improve patient outcomes, the field is currently focused on defining the mechanisms of cancer formation and spread, early diagnosis and prevention, and developing novel therapeutic options. This review summarizes recent advances in these areas.
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spelling pubmed-52886822017-02-08 Recent Advances in Understanding, Diagnosing, and Treating Ovarian Cancer Mills, Kathryn Fuh, Katherine F1000Res Review Ovarian cancer, a term that encompasses ovarian, fallopian, and peritoneal cancers, is the leading cause of gynecologic cancer mortality. To improve patient outcomes, the field is currently focused on defining the mechanisms of cancer formation and spread, early diagnosis and prevention, and developing novel therapeutic options. This review summarizes recent advances in these areas. F1000Research 2017-01-27 /pmc/articles/PMC5288682/ /pubmed/28184293 http://dx.doi.org/10.12688/f1000research.9977.1 Text en Copyright: © 2017 Mills K and Fuh K http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution Licence, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
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