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World J Obstet Gynecol. May 10, 2016; 5(2): 187-196
Published online May 10, 2016. doi: 10.5317/wjog.v5.i2.187
Published online May 10, 2016. doi: 10.5317/wjog.v5.i2.187
Gynecologic oncologists involvement on ovarian cancer standard of care receipt and survival
Sun Hee Rim, Cheryll C Thomas, Trevor D Thompson, Sherri L Stewart, Division of Cancer Prevention and Control, National Center for Chronic Disease Prevention and Health Promotion, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Atlanta, GA 30341, United States
Shawn Hirsch, Darryl Cooney, SciMetrika LLC, Durham, NC 27713, United States
Wendy R Brewster, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, NC 27517, United States
Author contributions: Rim SH, Thomas CC and Stewart SL conceived of the study; Rim SH, Hirsch S, Thomas CC, Brewster WR, Cooney D, Thompson TD and Stewart SL wrote the paper and made substantial contributions to the conception, design, data analysis and interpretation of the data; Rim SH, Hirsch S, Thomas CC, Brewster WR and Stewart SL drafted and/or critically reviewed the manuscript for important intellectual content; all authors read and approved the final manuscript.
Supported by The United States Federal Government, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Atlanta, GA, United States.
Institutional review board statement: The study was reviewed and approved by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention Institutional Review Board through an expedited review process in accordance with standard procedures.
Informed consent statement: The Institutional Review Board determined that informed consent was not needed, since the analytic dataset used contained only de-identified patient information and there was no patient contact in this study.
Conflict-of-interest statement: The authors declare that they have no competing interests.
Data sharing statement: No additional data are available.
Open-Access: This article is an open-access article which was selected by an in-house editor and fully peer-reviewed by external reviewers. It is distributed in accordance with the Creative Commons Attribution Non Commercial (CC BY-NC 4.0) license, which permits others to distribute, remix, adapt, build upon this work non-commercially, and license their derivative works on different terms, provided the original work is properly cited and the use is non-commercial. See: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/
Correspondence to: Sun Hee Rim, Epidemiologist, Division of Cancer Prevention and Control, National Center for Chronic Disease Prevention and Health Promotion, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, CDC 4770 Buford Hwy NE MS F-76, Atlanta, GA 30341, United States. srim@cdc.gov
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Received: December 4, 2015
Peer-review started: December 4, 2015
First decision: December 28, 2015
Revised: February 26, 2016
Accepted: March 14, 2016
Article in press: March 16, 2016
Published online: May 10, 2016
Processing time: 157 Days and 10.3 Hours
Peer-review started: December 4, 2015
First decision: December 28, 2015
Revised: February 26, 2016
Accepted: March 14, 2016
Article in press: March 16, 2016
Published online: May 10, 2016
Processing time: 157 Days and 10.3 Hours
Core Tip
Core tip: A significant survival advantage is associated with receiving surgical standard of care (SOC), yet still some women had lower odds of receiving surgical SOC.