Consolidation and maintenance treatments for patients with advanced epithelial ovarian cancer in complete response after first-line chemotherapy: a review of the literature.

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Published in Crit Rev Oncol Hematol on August 01, 2005

Authors

Angiolo Gadducci1, Stefania Cosio, Pier Franco Conte, Andrea Riccardo Genazzani

Author Affiliations

1: Department of Procreative Medicine, Division of Gynecology and Obstetrics, University of Pisa, Via Roma 56, Pisa 56127, Italy. a.gadducci@obgyn.med.unipi.it

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