title: The outlook for women with borderline epithelial tumours of the ovary.
abstract: Seventy-two women with borderline epithelial tumours of the ovary have been followed up for between 3 and 9 years. Patients with disease confined to one or both ovaries had a good prognosis, irrespective of histological type. When extra-ovarian spread was present at the time of diagnosis, neither the histological type nor the amount of residual tumour predicted the long-term outcome in individual patients.
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D000368:Aged; D004848:Epithelium / Q000473:pathology; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008875:Middle Aged; D010051:Ovarian Neoplasms / Q000175:diagnosis* / Q000473:pathology / Q000601:surgery; D011247:Pregnancy; D011379:Prognosis