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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 . . .
Richardson et al. (1985) studied this question.