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Elevated allostatic load (AL), an integrated, cumulative marker of physiologic damage due to socioenvironmental stress, is associated with increased mortality in patients with breast, lung, and other cancers. The relationship between allostatic load and mortality in ovarian cancer patients remains unknown. We examined the relationship between allostatic load and overall survival in ovarian cancer patients.
Borho et al. (Wed,) studied this question.