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In the care of patients with ovarian cancer, the physician and health care team will need to make many decisions about how best to treat the patient. This is particularly true of those patients who are seriously ill and dying.
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Latimer, E.J. (1995). Ethical decision making in the care of seriously ill and dying patients. Theory and practice. In: Sharp, F., Mason, P., Blackett, T., Berek, J. (eds) Ovarian Cancer 3. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4757-0136-4_28
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