1. Epithelial carcinoma of the ovary:prognostic importance of histologic grade.
- Author
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Day TG Jr, Gallager HS, and Rutledge FN
- Subjects
- Adolescent, Adult, Black or African American, Age Factors, Aged, Female, Humans, Latin America ethnology, Middle Aged, Ovarian Neoplasms mortality, Prognosis, Texas, White People, Ovarian Neoplasms pathology
- Abstract
Although this report contains only a few cases of epithelial carcinoma of the ovary and is not complete, it does suggest several new points and confirms other points reported in the literature: 1) increasing stage of cancer correlates well with decreased survival; 2) higher histologic grade of cancer correlates with decreases survival; 3) patients with a given stage of ovarian cancer having higher grades of malignancy have poorer survival; and 4) lower grade tumors are most frequently associated with lower stages of cancer, and higher grade tumors are most frequently associated with advanced stages.
- Published
- 1975