Epidemiology, Symptoms, Risk factors, Classification, Staging, and Diagnosis of Ovarian Cancer
Year: 2026
Type: article
Abstract: Ovarian cancer (OC) is a complex disease and represent the high frequent gynecologic tumor globally, predominantly affecting elderly and middle-aged females and, thus, it stands out as one of the most highly malignant and lethal gynecological tumors, surpassing all other gynecologic tumors, OC accounts for about 4% of global women cancer-related deaths, Epidemiological global studies reveal a regular raise in the tendency to proceed ovarian cancer (OC). There is no effective screening tool for ovarian cancer and its symptoms are non-specific. To treat ovarian cancer, radiotherapy, chemotherapy, and surgery alone or in combination are most often used. Understanding OC biology, including hereditary ovarian cancer genetic basis, the OC stage, and the role of effective chemotherapy and cytoreductive surgery, may associating with an improve in the percentage of 5 years survive of Ovarian cancer patients. This review debates the epidemiology, symptoms, risk factors, classification, staging, and diagnosis of OC, besides giving an overview of standard therapies
Language: English
Subfield: Oncology
Field: Medicine
Domain: Health Sciences
Open Access status: diamond
OpenAlex ID: W7222889076