Overview

Ovarian cancer is responsible for the highest mortality rates of all gynecologic cancers. It is expected that in 2007 an estimated 15,280 women will die from ovarian cancer and 22,430 new cases will be diagnosed. A decrease in incidence of 0.9% per year was reported between 1987 and 2004. Incidence and mortality rates are highest in white women compared to other racial and ethnic groups. Although highly treatable when detected early, most diagnoses occur at advanced stages of disease, when 5-year survival rates are 69% for patients with regionally advanced disease and 30% for patients with distant metastases.

Gynecologic Cancers Topic Search — Cancer Topic Searches are prepared literature searches from the National Library of Medicine's PubMed database. Citations on a specific sub-category can be retrieved, or results limited by a date range.

Statistics

Ovarian cancer incidence, mortality, and survival, including analysis by race and ethnicity, and information about trends in NCI-funded ovarian cancer research.