Surgical staging of early stage epithelial ovarian cancer: Results from the CDC-NPCR ovarian patterns of care study

► Adequacy of surgical staging was evaluated for early stage ovarian cancer patients. ► Involvement of a gynecologic oncologist increased the probability of adequate staging. ► Patients without lymph node assessment had nearly twice the risk of death. ► Lack of node sampling had a survival effect only on patients who had no chemotherapy.