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The management of elderly patients with gynecologic cancer
1Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, George Washington University, Washington, District of Columbia, USA.
Current Opinion in Obstetrics & Gynecology
|February 1, 1995
Abstract:
Although the cause of ovarian cancer is unknown, the risk of developing the disease increases with age. Postmenopausal uterine bleeding is assumed to be caused by endometrial cancer until proven otherwise by adequate cytologic or histologic sampling of the endometrium. Older women need to be educated as to the benefits of regular pelvic examinations and Papanicolaou smears.