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Ovarian Cancer

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Topic: Ovaries
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Sort Desciption: Ovarian cancer is the sixth most common cancer among women, excluding non-melanoma skin cancers. The American Cancer Society estimates that about 23,400 new cases of ovarian cancer will be diagnosed in the United States during 2001. ...

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Ovarian cancer is the sixth most common cancer among women, excluding non-melanoma skin cancers. The American Cancer Society estimates that about 23,400 new cases of ovarian cancer will be diagnosed in the United States during 2001. Ovarian cancer accounts for 4% of all cancers in women. The good news is that the ovarian cancer incidence rate has been slowly decreasing since 1991. The incidence rate is a precise way for scientists to describe how common or rare a disease is. The ovarian cancer incidence rate is defined as the number of new cases diagnosed each year per 100,000 women. Ovarian cancer ranks fifth in cancer deaths among women, accounting for more deaths than any other cancer of the female reproductive system. It is estimated that there will be about 13,900 deaths from ovarian cancer in the United States during 2001. The five -- year survival rate is used to provide a standard way of discussing prognosis. It refers to the percentage of patients who live at least 5 years after their cancer is diagnosed, although many of these patients live much longer than 5 years after diagnosis. Five-year relative survival rates exclude from the calculations patients dying of other diseases, and are considered to be a more accurate way to describe the prognosis for patients with a particular type and stage of cancer. Of course, 5-year survival rates are based on patients diagnosed and initially treated more than 5 years ago. Improvements in treatment often result in a more favorable outlook for recently diagnosed patients. About 78% of ovarian cancer patients survive one year after diagnosis and over 50% survive longer than five years after diagnosis. If diagnosed and treated while the cancer has not spread outside the ovary, the five-year survival rate is 95%. However, only 25% of all ovarian cancers are found at this early stage. Older women with ovarian cancer tend to have a poorer prognosis than younger ones. For example, the five-year survival rate is 64% in women under 65 years of age and 30% in women over 65. ...

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