What is the outlook for people with epithelial ovarian cancer?

What is the outlook for people with epithelial ovarian cancer?

More than 13,000 people die from ovarian cancer every year. It’s the fifth leading cause of cancer deaths among people assigned female at birth (AFAB). But promising new treatments are under development in clinical trials. And researchers are making progress in detecting the disease earlier.

When epithelial ovarian cancer is detected before it spreads, the five-year survival rate is more than 90%. This number drops to about 30% when the cancer has spread (metastasized).

Many factors affect a cancer prognosis, including:

• Cancer spread.
• Effectiveness of treatments.
• Location, size and number of tumors (cancer stage).