Ovarian Cancer Isn't Just a White Woman's Disease

JAMA Oncol. 2024 Jun 1;10(6):697-698. doi: 10.1001/jamaoncol.2024.0191.
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Plain language summary

This Viewpoint highlights the need for recognition that ovarian cancer affects women from racial and ethnic minority groups worldwide and that the rates of ovarian cancer are increasing in those populations while decreasing among White women.

Publication types

  • Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't

MeSH terms

  • Ethnicity
  • Female
  • Humans
  • Ovarian Neoplasms* / ethnology
  • Ovarian Neoplasms* / pathology
  • Racial Groups
  • White People