Day 7 A Month of Teal - Ovarian Cancer Statistics

When I was in treatment in 2005 someone told me to not look the statistics for ovarian cancer because I was a person not a number. But it is important to know the statistics so everyone understands how important research is and why better treatments and ultimately a cure are so important to so many women and their families.
 
An estimated 22,440 new cases of ovarian cancer will occur in 2017, which is 1.3% of all new cancer cases.
     60% of all cases are women with distant disease (metastasized cancer )
     20% of all cases has spread to lymph nodes (regional)
     15% of all cases are found only in the ovary ( localized)
     ~ 6% of all cases are unstaged

Rates for new cases of ovarian cancer has dropped 1.9% each year for the last 10 years.

Ovarian cancer will cause the deaths of 14,080 women in 2017, which is 2.3% of all cancer deaths.

In 2014, 222,060 women were living with ovarian cancer.

The percent of women surviving after 5 years is  46.5% ( 2007-2013)
But the percentage of women varies depending on the stage at diagnosis. ( More on staging tomorrow.)
95% of all women diagnosed at early stage ( localized) disease are alive at 5 years.
73% of all women diagnosed with regional disease are alive at 5 years.
28.9% of all women diagnosed with distant disease are alive at 5 years.

The median age at diagnosis is 63 years.

Source: Seer DATA https://seer.cancer.gov/statfacts/html/ovary.html
Dee
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