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Editorial| Volume 143, ISSUE 2, P227-228, November 2016

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STIC-ing with what we know

  • Lee-may Chen
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    Division of Gynecologic Oncology, Department of Obstetrics, Gynecology, & Reproductive Science, UCSF Helen Diller Family Comprehensive Cancer Center, University of California, 550 16th St. 7th Floor, San Francisco, CA 94158
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      It is time to agree that serous tubal intraepithelial carcinomas (STIC lesions) are cancers, even though the management of occult STIC lesions, whether additional surgical staging or chemotherapy is indicated, remains unclear.
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