Girls with ovarian germ-cell tumours can safely skip chemotherapy unless disease recurs

Thursday, October 21, 2010 - 15:20 in Health & Medicine

Researchers from Dana-Farber/Children's Hospital Cancer Centre (DF/CHCC) have found that as many as 50 percent of young girls treated for germ-cell ovarian tumours might safely be spared chemotherapy using a 'watch and wait' strategy to determine if the follow-up treatment is needed...

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