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Complications of a collapsed colon with ovarian cancer?
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Call surgeon: If ovarian cancer has caused obstruction of the large intestine, common humanity would call for a surgeon to see if he/she can relieve the obstruction by whatever means even if the cancer is uncurable long-term.
Answered 3/8/2013
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