Cancer
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Multicenter Study Comparative Study
Indicators of survival duration in ovarian cancer and implications for aggressiveness of care.
Ovarian cancer patients frequently receive chemotherapy near the end of life. The purpose of the current study was to develop indicators that characterize those ovarian cancer patients who have a short life span. ⋯ Patients who received aggressive care did not have improvement in survival. Short disease remissions and increasing hospitalizations with SCE should be indicators of the appropriateness of reducing cure-oriented therapies and increasing palliative interventions.