Samir A. Farghaly
Editor

2014

Worldwide, 204,449 new cases of ovarian cancer are diagnosed each year, with an estimated 124,860 disease-related deaths. There are notable differences in ovarian cancer incidence across the world. In Europe, in 2012, there were 65,538 cases with a mortality rate of 42,704 women. The American Cancer Society’s estimates for ovarian cancer in the USA for 2013 are: about 22,240 women will receive a new diagnosis of ovarian cancer and about 14,230 women will die from the disease.