The lifetime risk of a woman in the USA developing ovarian cancer is approximately 1 in 70. Malignant tumors of the ovaries occur at all ages with variation in histologic subtype by age. For example, in women younger than 20 years of age, germ cell tumors predominate, while borderline tumors typically occur in women in their 30s and 40s—10 or more years younger than in women with invasive epithelial ovarian cancers, which mostly occur after the age of 50. About 23% of gyn cancers are ovarian, but 47% of all deaths from cancer of the female genital tract occur in women with ovarian cancer. In this podcast we will summarize the new FIGO classification system for ovarian cancer which now includes malignancies of the fallopian tube and peritoneum (OVFTP).
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