CANCER OVARY, PRESENT AND FUTURE OF MANAGEMENT

Authors

  • Tariq Pervez

Abstract

Ovarian cancer is very important malignancy of woman as far as its incidence and mortality is concerned. Although majority presents at late stage but still there is a reasonable response to currently available chemotherapy drugs and their use in multimodality setting. Besides good response to chemotherapy drugs, majority have recurrence. So there is a need for new drugs, new trends and their combinations. All these issues will be discussed in this review article

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Vol. 15 No. 2 (2003): JOURNAL OF AYUB MEDICAL COLLEGE, ABBOTTABAD

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