Ovarian cancer: Current status and strategies for improving therapeutic outcomes (original) (raw)

Ovarian cancer (OC) is the deadliest cancer among women placing it with 4th place for all the fatal disease among women. Cancer statistics from 2019 show that the estimated number of new cases is 22 240 with deaths around 14 170 cases. 1 There are three histological types associated with the disease. The most common is epithelial OC (EOC). Patients with this fatal disease have only 45.6% 5-year survival rate. 2 The survival rate in general increases up to 70% if effective early stage detection is possible. Early-stage detection rate for this disease is as low as 20%. For most of the patients the late