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4<br />
The <strong>Royal</strong> <strong>Marsden</strong><br />
Malignant Bowel Obstruction<br />
– 3% all cancers<br />
– Autopsy studies of patients with ovarian cancer:<br />
– Large and small bowel involvement in 49% and 42%<br />
cases resp. (Rose et al,1978)<br />
– Large and small bowel involvement in 78% and 70%<br />
cases, with bowel obstruction in 51% cases (Dvoretsky<br />
et al,1988)