When doctors begin surgery for ovarian cancer — they will either find one isolated tumor, or cancer that has begun to spread. The type of surgery they perform and how long the surgery takes will depend on what they find after they make the initial incision. Surgery can be as quick as two hours, or can stretch to longer than four hours if some other organs become involved.
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