Shaking off the shadow of ovarian cancer.(Medicine & Health) From: USA Today (Magazine) | Date: July 1, 2007| Author: | COPYRIGHT 2007 Society for the Advancement of Education. This material is published under license from the publisher through the Gale Group, Farmington Hills, Michigan.  All inquiries regarding rights should be directed to the Gale Group.Copyright information

ABOUT ONE IN EVERY 57 women in the U.S. will have ovarian cancer at some point in her life, according to statistics from the National Cancer Institute. Each year, approximately 22,000 individuals are diagnosed with the disease, and more than half of them will die from it. Ovarian cancer ranks as the fourth-leading cause of cancer deaths (after lung, breast, and colon) for American women, and is the most deadly form of gynecological cancer. There only has been a slight decline in death rates from this disease in the past 50 years. The exact causes have yet to be determined ...