Transfusion medicine
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Transfusion medicine · Apr 2012
Clinical TrialThe association between allogeneic perioperative blood transfusion on tumour recurrence and survival in patients with advanced ovarian cancer.
To evaluate the association between perioperative blood transfusion on the recurrence and survival of patient with advanced ovarian cancer. ⋯ There is an association between ovarian cancer recurrence and allogeneic perioperative blood transfusion in patients with advanced ovarian cancer undergoing cytoreductive surgery. These findings may have important implications in the perioperative management of those patients.