Ovarian cancer, version 2.2013

Robert J Morgan1, Ronald D Alvarez, Deborah K Armstrong

  • 1From 1City of Hope Comprehensive Cancer Center; 2University of Alabama at Birmingham Comprehensive Cancer Center; 3The Sidney Kimmel Comprehensive Cancer Center at Johns Hopkins; 4Fox Chase Cancer Center; 5UCSF Helen Diller Family Comprehensive Cancer Center; 6he Ohio State University Comprehensive Cancer Center - James Cancer Hospital and Solove Research Institute; 7Vanderbilt-Ingram Cancer Center; 8The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center; 9University of Washington/Seattle Cancer Care Alliance; 10Moffitt Cancer Center; 11Duke Cancer Institute; 12University of Michigan Comprehensive Cancer Center; 13Roswell Park Cancer Institute; 14Dana-Farber/Brigham and Women's Cancer Center; 15Massachusetts General Hospital Cancer Center; 16Siteman Cancer Center at Barnes-Jewish Hospital and Washington University School of Medicine; 17Fred & Pamela Buffett Cancer Center at The Nebraska Medical Center; 18Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center; 19St. Jude Children's Research Hospital/The University of Tennessee Health Science Center; 20Robert H. Lurie Comprehensive Cancer Center of Northwestern University; 21Stanford Cancer Institute; 22Huntsman Cancer Institute at the University of Utah; and 23National Comprehensive Cancer Network.

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