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ORIGINAL ARTICLE: Gynecological Malignancies

Variations in adjuvant chemotherapy and survival in women with epithelial ovarian cancer – a population-based study

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Pages 226-233 | Received 14 Mar 2014, Accepted 20 May 2015, Published online: 16 Jun 2015

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