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SUBMITTER: Pearce CL
PROVIDER: S-EPMC4892114 | biostudies-literature | 2015 Apr
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Pearce Celeste Leigh CL Stram Daniel O DO Ness Roberta B RB Stram Douglas A DA Roman Lynda D LD Templeman Claire C Lee Alice W AW Menon Usha U Fasching Peter A PA McAlpine Jessica N JN Doherty Jennifer A JA Modugno Francesmary F Schildkraut Joellen M JM Rossing Mary Anne MA Huntsman David G DG Wu Anna H AH Berchuck Andrew A Pike Malcolm C MC Pharoah Paul D P PDP
Cancer epidemiology, biomarkers & prevention : a publication of the American Association for Cancer Research, cosponsored by the American Society of Preventive Oncology 20150126 4
<h4>Background</h4>In U.S. women, lifetime risk of ovarian cancer is 1.37%, but some women are at a substantially lower or higher risk than this average.<h4>Methods</h4>We have characterized the distribution of lifetime risk in the general population. Published data on the relative risks and their variances for five well-accepted risk and protective factors for ovarian cancer, oral contraceptive use, parity, tubal ligation, endometriosis, and first-degree family history of ovarian cancer in conj ...[more]