How many women get ovarian cancer?

The American Cancer Society's most recent estimates for ovarian cancer in the United States are for 2012:

• About 22,280 new cases of ovarian cancer
• About 15,500 deaths from ovarian cancer

Ovarian cancer is the ninth most common cancer in women (not counting skin cancer). It ranks fifth as the cause of cancer death in women. About half of women who are diagnosed with ovarian cancer are 60 or older. It is more common in white women that African-American women.

A woman's risk of getting invasive ovarian cancer in her lifetime is about 1 in 71. Her lifetime chance of dying from invasive ovarian cancer is about 1 in 95. (These statistics don’t count low malignant potential ovarian tumors.)