Girls with ovarian germ-cell tumors can safely skip chemotherapy unless disease recurs
Wednesday, October 20, 2010 - 11:31
in Health & Medicine
Researchers from Dana-Farber/Children's Hospital Cancer Center (DF/CHCC) have found that as many as 50 percent of young girls treated for germ-cell ovarian tumors might safely be spared chemotherapy using a "watch and wait" strategy to determine if the follow-up treatment is needed.