E C Kohn

The roles of histologic characterization and staging are to provide reproducible metrics for cancer classification with which to direct the most appropriate clinical care and to yield the most stable reliable system to allow both prospectiv…

In the era of morphologic diagnostics, any epithelial tumor on or involving the ovaries was presumed to come from and be strictly of ovarian origin, apart from the rare but clearly metastatic tumors. Thus, many women who might have had smal…