Impact of family history and parity on ovarian cancer risk. (adapted from the Archives of Internal Medicine, May 8, 1995)(Tips from Other Journals)

From: American Family Physician | Date: September 1, 1995 | Copyright information

Ovarian cancer is the fifth most common cancer among women in the United States. The five-year survival rate is less than 40 percent, and approximately 13,000 women die of the disease each year. Recent attention has focused on risk factors such as inherited predisposition, dietary intake of calcium, lactose, beta carotene, fiber, alcohol and coffee. Kerber and Slattery performed a matched case-control analytic study using the Utah Population Database, a genealogy of approximately 1 million individuals, linked to cancer incidence data from the Utah Cancer Registry, to estimate the ...

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