Worldwide comparison of ovarian cancer survival: Histological group and stage at diagnosis (CONCORD-2).

ABSTRACT:

Objective

Ovarian cancer comprises several histological groups with widely differing levels of survival. We aimed to explore international variation in survival for each group to help interpret international differences in survival from all ovarian cancers combined. We also examined differences in stage-specific survival.

Methods

The CONCORD programme is the largest population-based study of global trends in cancer survival, including data from 60 countries for 695,932 women (aged 15-99years) diagnosed with ovarian cancer during 1995-2009. We defined six histological groups: type I epithelial, type II epithelial, germ cell, sex cord-stromal, other specific non-epithelial and non-specific morphology, and estimated age-standardised 5-year net survival for each country by histo

SUBMITTER: Matz M 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6195190 | biostudies-literature | 2017 Feb

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature