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Ovarian cancer claims approximately 14,000 lives in the U.S. annually, making it the nation's fifth most common cause of cancer death among women (following lung, breast, colorectal, and pancreatic cancers).
To estimate how many women with the disease survive longer than 10 years — at which point, patients likely are cured — and to identify factors associated with long-term survival, investigators analyzed California Cancer Registry records of 11,541 women in whom epithelial ovarian cancer was diagnosed between 1994 and 2001.
In this cohort, 3582 patients (31%) survived longer than 10 years. Significant predictors of long-term survival included younger age at diagnosis; stage I or II disease; low-grade tumors; and endometrioid, clear-cell, or…