title: Epithelial carcinoma of the ovary:prognostic importance of histologic grade.
abstract: Although this report contains only a few cases of epithelial carcinoma of the ovary and is not complete, it does suggest several new points and confirms other points reported in the literature: 1) increasing stage of cancer correlates well with decreased survival; 2) higher histologic grade of cancer correlates with decreases survival; 3) patients with a given stage of ovarian cancer having higher grades of malignancy have poorer survival; and 4) lower grade tumors are most frequently associated with lower stages of cancer, and higher grade tumors are most frequently associated with advanced stages.
mesh_terms: D000293:Adolescent; D000328:Adult; D001741:Black or African American; D000367:Age Factors; D000368:Aged; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D007843:Latin America / Q000208:ethnology; D008875:Middle Aged; D010051:Ovarian Neoplasms / Q000401:mortality / Q000473:pathology*; D011379:Prognosis; D013781:Texas; D044465:White People