New York University Week 8 Ovarian Cancer Statistics Discussion

New York University Week 8 Ovarian Cancer Statistics Discussion

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In 2018, there will be approximately 22,240 new cases of ovarian cancer diagnosed and 14,070 ovarian cancer deaths in the United States. Ovarian cancer accounts for 2.5% of all malignancies among females but 5% of female cancer deaths because of low survival rates, largely driven by late-stage diagnoses. Population‐based cancer incidence data in the United States are collected by the National Cancer Institute’s (NCI’s) Surveillance, Epidemiology, and End Results (SEER) program and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s National Program of Cancer Registries (NPCR). The average annual ovarian cancer incidence rate in the United States was 11.5 per 100,000 women from 2010 through 2014. Incidence rates in non‐Hispanic white (NHW) women (12.0 per 100,000), who have the highest rates, are 30% higher than those in non‐Hispanic black (NHB) women (9.4 per 100,000) and API women (9.2 per 100,000), who have the lowest rates. Racial/ethnic differences in ovarian cancer risk at the population level are partially explained by the prevalence of risk factors (Torre, 2018).

Ovarian cancer mortality decreased by greater than 30% since the mid‐1970s because of reductions in incidence and improvements in treatment in recent decades. Survival rates have improved only slightly over the past 3 decades among NHWs and have remained stagnant among NHBs, likely because of differential access to high‐quality treatment. Moreover, NHB women experience the lowest survival for almost every stage of diagnosis across cancer subtypes. The researchers recommended that more studies are needed to more specifically determine the reasons for this disparity. Issues with this study’s information demonstrated that data was provided based on incidence among ethnicity, but no data was given on social demographics. The higher incidence groups NHWs and NHBs access to appropriate medical care or socio-economic data should be factored into the study.

Reference

Torre, L.A., Trabert, B., DeSantis, C.E., Miller, K.D., Samimi, G., Runowicz, C.D., Gaudet, M.M., Jemal, A. and Siegel, R.L. (2018). Ovarian cancer statistics, 2018. CA: A Cancer Journal for Clinicians, 68: 284-296. doi:10.3322/caac.21456

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