Common Epithelial Cancer of the Ovary
- 14 February 1985
- journal article
- review article
- Published by Massachusetts Medical Society in New England Journal of Medicine
- Vol. 312 (7) , 415-424
- https://doi.org/10.1056/nejm198502143120706
Abstract
OVARIAN cancer ranks fifth as a fatal form of cancer in American women. The estimated number of deaths from ovarian cancer in 1984 (11,500)1 exceeds that from uterine cancer (cervix, 7000; endometrium, 3000). Since many histologically distinct neoplasms arise in the ovary, it is important to emphasize that most ovarian cancers in the Western world are of the common epithelial type; these tumors accounted for 87 per cent of the cases registered in the U.S. Third National Cancer Survey (1969–1971)2; the other malignant ovarian tumors were mostly of germ-cell and sex-cord-stroma type.EpidemiologyEpidemiologic studies agree that ovarian cancer . . .Keywords
This publication has 69 references indexed in Scilit:
- Mumps, menarche, menopause, and ovarian cancerAmerican Journal of Obstetrics and Gynecology, 1983
- Oral Contraceptive Use and the Risk of Ovarian CancerPublished by American Medical Association (AMA) ,1983
- Factors Affecting the Association of Oral Contraceptives and Ovarian CancerNew England Journal of Medicine, 1982
- Epithelial ovarian cancer and combination oral contraceptivesJAMA, 1982
- Oral contraceptives and risk of ovarian cancerCancer, 1981
- "INCESSANT OVULATION" AND OVARIAN CANCERThe Lancet, 1979
- The woman at risk for developing ovarian cancerGynecologic Oncology, 1979
- DOES PREGNANCY PROTECT AGAINST OVARIAN CANCER?The Lancet, 1978
- Incidence of the histologic types of ovarian cancer: The U.S. Third National Cancer Survey, 1969–1971Gynecologic Oncology, 1977
- AN EPIDEMIOLOGIC STUDY OF THE RELATIONSHIP OF REPRODUCTIVE EXPERIENCE TO CANCER OF THE OVARY1American Journal of Epidemiology, 1974