Nasioudis D, et al. - Using the National Cancer Database, researchers determined how the rate of complete gross resection for patients with advanced stage epithelial ovarian carcinoma undergoing primary debulking surgery were influenced by hospital surgical volume. They categorized facility surgical volume into tertiles (high, intermediate and low). Overall 8,894 patients with macroscopic peritoneal disease were examined in this analysis. They found a higher chance of complete gross resection post-primary debulking surgery for advanced-stage epithelial ovarian cancer in patients receiving surgery in high volume centers; this was observed after controlling for multiple potential confounders.