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Diagnosis: Types of Tumors

Epithelial Cancer: Transitional cell (Brenner) carcinoma
Limited data suggest that advanced stage TCCs are more chemosensitive to platinum-containing chemotherapeutic regimens in comparison to advanced stage serous carcinomas, however other investigators have not confirmed these findings.

  
     
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