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Race/ethnic variations in ovarian cancer mortality in the United States, 1992–1997

✍ Scribed by Holly L. Howe; Ko-Hui Tung; Steven Coughlin; Rachel Jean-Baptiste; Joellyn Hotes

Publisher
John Wiley and Sons
Year
2003
Tongue
English
Weight
376 KB
Volume
97
Category
Article
ISSN
0008-543X

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✦ Synopsis

A n estimated 13,900 women in the U.S. were expected to die from ovarian cancer in 2001, 1 making it the most fatal malignancy of the female genital tract. 2 Ovarian cancer also is the fifth leading cause of cancer deaths among women. 3 Although these statistics are alarming, to our knowledge only a few descriptive studies of ovarian cancer mortality in the U.S population published to date have compared rates by race and ethnicity. [2][3][4][5][6] Long-term trends in death rates from ovarian cancer among black women were

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