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Diagnosis: Types of Tumors  |
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Atypical proliferative ("borderline") serous tumors Back |
| The disease-specific survival rate of patients with APSTs confined to the ovaries, or with "microinvasion" or even with "lymph node involvement" approaches 100%. The behavior of APSTs with extraovarian disease is based on the type of implants that are present. The survival rate of patients with APSTs with noninvasive implants is 95-100% after a mean follow-up of 7.4 years. In general, the noninvasive serous tumors associated with invasive implants are micropapillary serous carcinomas, not APSTs. |
