Women with ovarian cancer are living longer than expected. A new study from the University of California helps upend the notion that women with ovarian cancer always face a poor chance of survival.
LONG-TERM SURVIVORS
For the study, researchers used the California Cancer Registry to analyze data reported on all California residents diagnosed with epithelial ovarian cancer between 1994 and 2001. Epithelial ovarian cancer is the most common type of ovarian cancer, occurring in nine out of 10 cases.
Of the 11,541 patients in the registry database, 3,582 (31 percent) survived more than 10 years. This was the first time that research has looked at 10-year trajectories for patients; most survival studies have looked only at 5-year survival or less.
As expected, the study shows that the majority of the long-term survivors were younger, had early-stage disease when they were diagnosed, and their tumors were of a lower-risk tissue type.
But what struck the researchers was that of the 3,582 long-term survivors, 954 of them had been considered to be at high risk of dying from their disease, either because of their tumor stage, grade, or older age at diagnosis.
For the entire article which includes a woman’s personal story and why many women are beating the odds please visit the link: http://www.futurity.org/women-ovarian-cancer-978612/
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