#1) How many women were diagnosed with ovarian cancer? 2000-2015?
Answer: Based on CDC data 313,905 cases of ovarian cancer. Each year, about 20,000 women in the United States get ovarian cancer. Among women in the United States, ovarian cancer is the ninth most common cancer and the fifth leading cause of cancer death, after lung and bronchus, breast, colorectal, and pancreatic cancers. Ovarian cancer causes more deaths than any other cancer of the female reproductive system, but it accounts for only about 3% of all cancers in women.