Long-Term Survival Among Histological Subtypes in Advanced Epithelial Ovarian Cancer: Population-Based Study Using the Surveillance, Epidemiology, and End Results Database
Information about the ultimate fate of long-term survivors after ovarian cancer is scarce. This retrospective study looks at a large number of women and matches their outcome to the type of ovarian cancer
Data for more than 8000 women with stage III/IV ovarian cancer was collected from the SEER database. All these women were diagnosed during the period 2000-2014 and had survived 5 years or more after initial diagnosis.
Despite their long-term survival, most of these women (80%) died from ovarian cancer, particularly the serous epithelial subtypes. For other subtypes it is less likely that women will die from ovarian cancer, with mucinous, endometrioid and clear cell cancer patients being half as likely to die from ovarian cancer. Other causes such as different cancers or cardiac disease become more important.
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