South Australian Statistics
Australian Statistics
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1,226 Australian women were diagnosed with ovarian cancer in 2006.
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795 Australian women died from ovarian cancer in 2006.
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One in 120 Australian women will develop ovarian cancer by the age of 75.
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Around 5-10 per cent are thought to have a genetic connection.
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Around 75 per cent of women with ovarian cancer already have advanced cancer by the time they are diagnosed.
- The proportion of women with ovarian cancer surviving five years after diagnosis is 40 per cent (in Australia). The difficulty in detection is a major factor in the high mortality. Ovarian cancer has the least favourable outcomes of any of the female specific cancers.
- Risk factors for ovarian cancer include:
- older age
- no or few pregnancies
- long duration between starting menstruation and menopause
- family history of ovarian, breast, colon or uterine cancer
- personal history of colon or uterine cancer.
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