Epidemiology of Malignant Cervical, Corpus Uteri and Ovarian Tumours - Current Data and Epidemiological Trends.

ABSTRACT: Cervical, uterine and ovarian cancers are the most common malignancies of the female genital tract. Using current data from population-based cancer registries in Germany, we present the recent figures for the incidence, prevalence, associated mortality and survival for these cancers. In 2009, a total of 23 800 women were newly diagnosed with one of the three gynaecological cancers (cervical cancer: 20.3 %, endometrial cancer: 48.5 %, ovarian cancer: 31.2 %). This figure equals approximately one third of the number of women newly diagnosed with breast cancer in the same year. The relative 5-year survival for carcinomas of the corpus uteri is 79 % and is higher that those for cervical cancer (68 %) and ovarian cancer (40 %). Ovarian cancer in particular is often diagnosed at a later stage an

SUBMITTER: Waldmann A 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC3859169 | biostudies-literature | 2013 Feb

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature