About Ovarian Cancer » Statistics
- Ovarian cancer is the eighth most common cancer among women.
- About 21,650 new cases of ovarian cancer will be diagnosed in the United States during 2009.
- About 15,520 women will die of ovarian cancer in the United States during 2009.
- A women’s risk of getting invasive ovarian cancer during her lifetime is about 1 in 72.
- About two-thirds of women who are diagnosed with ovarian cancer are age 55 or older.
- Ovarian cancer is slightly more common in Caucasian women then African American women.
- Ovarian cancer ranks fifth in cancer deaths among women, accounting for more deaths than any other cancer of the female reproductive system.
- About 75% of women with ovarian cancer survive at least one year after diagnosis.
- Fifty-five percent of women with ovarian cancer will be dead within five years.
- Eighty percent of ovarian cancer cases are diagnosed in late stage.
- If ovarian cancer is found (and treated) before the cancer has spread outside the ovary, the five-year survival rate is 93%.
- 75% of ovarian cancer cases are diagnosed late.
