Dr. Robert F. Katz M.D.

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• Why We Can’t Treat All Ovarian Cancer the Same Way

  Over the last three decades, ovarian cancer survival rates have seen very little improvement. The current five-year survival rate for ovarian cancer is 43%, a low percentage that is a result of the fact that this type of cancer is difficult to detect and often goes undiagnosed until it has reached...

• Prenatal Exposure to Fever May Lead to Autism, Study Finds

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• Is Ovarian Cancer Terminal?

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• Fetal Exposure to Chemotherapy May Not Affect the Development of the Child

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