A STUDY ON THE OVARIAN CANCER INCIDENCE IN SOUTHERN PART OF WEST BENGAL
Arpita Chatterjee* and Sambhu Sarkar
ABSTRACT
Background: Ovarian cancer accounts for about 3% of cancers among women. The risk of developing ovarian
cancer was related to age, genetics, race, diet, lifestyle, medications and other factors. Objectives: The present
study was conducted to understand the ovarian cancer profile in the population of southern part of West Bengal for
the last five years, from 2011-2015. Result: Result revealed that ovarian cancer rate was alarmingly high in
females in this region. Further, the most serious issue that this disease in climbing in high rate days-after-days in
the recent years. The cancer rate was climbing with 26.05% incidence in the year 2015. Though a slight decrease
was noticed in the year 2013, but the frequency was negligible. The cancer frequency was moderate during 2011
to 2013, but it rises drastically from 2014 (22.22%) and reached maximum peak (26.05%) in 2015. The level of
CA125 in the blood was high (≤ 35 U/ml) in female having ovarian cancer. Present investigation revealed that the
incidence was alarmingly high in the age group of 40-49 years in females. Discussion: This rise of ovarian cancer
incidence is much more faster in last few years than the previous years. This scenario is really dangerous as
because due to various efforts to prevent the disease we are not able to control it in mass scale. This peak cancer
scenario can be altered in a positive direction by regular screening and by training the prevention measures of life
style modification in a wide scale through proper way.
Keywords: Ovarian cancer, population based study, incidental risk, West Bengal.
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