What are risk factors for epithelial ovarian cancer?

What are risk factors for epithelial ovarian cancer?

More than half of ovarian cancer diagnoses occur in people over 65 who have gone through menopause.

Certain factors may increase your risk of ovarian cancer, such as:

• Family history of ovarian cancer, breast cancer or colorectal (colon) cancer.
• Inheriting a change (mutation) to the BRCA gene.
• Inheriting a gene linked to family cancer syndromes like Lynch syndrome.
• Hormone therapy for menopause symptoms.
• Having a baby after age 35 or never having a full-term pregnancy.
• Carrying extra weight (obesity).