Patients with ovarian cancer usually present with advanced disease, and the disease is
generally managed with surgical resection followed by platinum-based chemotherapy …

Objective To estimate the relative risk and lifetime risk of ovarian cancer in women with
various categories of family history. Design A meta‐analysis of all published caseecontrol …

Breast cancer is known to have an inherited component, consistent in some families with
autosomal dominant inheritance; in such families the disease often occurs in association …

BACKGROUND The age‐specific proportion of breast and ovarian cancer in the general
population that is likely to be due to a breast/ovarian cancer susceptibility gene (s) is …

OBJECTIVE: To assess and characterize the temporal variation in ovarian cancer incidence
and mortality by age within countries in the Americas, Europe, Asia, and Oceania …

Ovarian cancer is the second leading cause of gynecologic cancer death with 225,500 new
diagnoses and 140,200 deaths each year worldwide (Jemal et al., CA Cancer J Clin 61 (2) …

We investigate the familial risks of cancers of the breast and ovary, using data pooled from
three population-based case-control studies of ovarian cancer that were conducted in the …

Epithelial cancer of the ovary is the fifth most common malignant condition among women in
the United States, with an annual incidence of 22,000 new cases1. This disease …

Purpose: To critically review the available evidence for screening asymptomatic women for
ovarian cancer with ultrasonography or the CA 125 radioimmunoassay (CA 125) or both …

Two hypotheses have been proposed to explain the reduced risk of epithelial ovarian
cancer associated with pregnancy and oral contraceptive use. The first states that some …