title: Laterality and prognosis in ovarian cancer.
abstract: Data from the End Results Group file at the National Cancer Institute indicate that in primary ovarian cancer neither the stage of disease at diagnosis nor patient survival is related to which of the two ovaries is first involved. Women with cancer in both ovaries have lower survival rates than women with unilateral cancer, though if the disease is still limited to the ovaries at the time of diagnosis this difference is small.
mesh_terms: D005260:Female; D007839:Functional Laterality; D006801:Humans; D009378:Neoplasms, Multiple Primary; D010051:Ovarian Neoplasms / Q000401:mortality / Q000473:pathology; D011379:Prognosis