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Epithelial ovarian cancer is the most lethal of the gynecologic malignancies. After cancer of the lung, breast, colon, and uterus, it is the fifth most common cancer among women in the United States, and the fourth most common cause of cancer death in women.
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Tewari, K., Monk, B. (2015). Introduction to ovarian cancer. In: The 21st Century Handbook of Clinical Ovarian Cancer. Adis, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-08066-6_1
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