Ca125 test result, test-to-diagnosis interval, and stage in ovarian cancer at diagnosis: a retrospective cohort study using electronic health records

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• who: Garth Funston et al. from the Ovarian cancer is the sixth most common cancer to affect women in the UK, with >, women diagnosed each year [1]It has the worst prognosis of all gynaecological cancers, accounting for >, UK deaths annually [2]. Although, overall, ovarian cancer prognosis is relatively poor, this varies markedly based on tumour type: studies conducted in the US and Sweden report that, year relative survival rates are, % for invasive epithelial cancer (the most common type), compared with, % for ovarian germ-cell tumours and, % for borderline tumours [3, ]. Most women with ovarian cancer are . . .
  

   

  

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