ABSTRACT
Epithelial ovarian cancer (EOC) accounts for one-quarter of all gynecologic cancers, but is responsible for the majority of deaths.1,2 A woman’s lifetime risk of ovarian cancer is about 1 in 55, and the American Cancer Society (ACS) estimates that in 2007 in the USA,22 430 women will be diagnosed with ovarian cancer and that 15280 will die of their disease.3
