Objective: to identify the influences of inadequate surgery in the survival of patients with ovarian cancer. Design/data identification: retrospective, 7 years, from 1980 until 1986, and follow up of minimal 5 years. Study selection: histopathology, the surgery was adequate or not, and survival rate. Subject, patients, participants: 236 cases of ovarian cancer, 210 (88.98 percent) cases can be …