Purpose: To assess the association between duration of symptoms and main prognostic factors of invasive epithelial ovarian cancer (EOC). Methods: The data of all histologically confirmed EOC patients diagnosed in Israel during the period 1994-1999 (n = 1,005) were retrieved from discharge summaries and admission records. Of the 371 (36.9%) patients with known presenting symptoms, the durations of 187 (50.4%) were recorded. Results: The most common presenting symptoms were abdominal pain (65.2%). The percentage of patients with three or more symptoms increased significantly with stage (P = 0.001). No statistically significant association between duration of symptoms and prognostic factors was found. Conclusion: Our findings did not show an association between duration of symptoms and prognostic factors in EOC patients and may indicate that prognosis is not a function of delay in diagnosis. © 2008 Springer-Verlag.
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Menczer, J., Chetrit, A., & Sadetzki, S. (2009). The effect of symptom duration in epithelial ovarian cancer on prognostic factors. Archives of Gynecology and Obstetrics, 279(6), 797–801. https://doi.org/10.1007/s00404-008-0814-1
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