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Ovarian cancer is an insidious disease that kills more American women each year than all other gynecologic cancers combined. It causes no specific symptoms even when the disease is advanced, there are no effective screening tests, and risk factors for this type of cancer are not well defined. As a result, in most women, ovarian cancer is not diagnosed until extensive spread has occurred; despite the advances that have been made in the surgical and pharmacologic treatment of the disease, most women with this form of cancer die from it.

Among the suggested risk factors for ovarian cancer, which include . . . [Full Text of this Article]

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