“Ovarian cancer is the second most common gynecologic cancer in the United States. Ovarian cancer causes more deaths than any other cancer of the female reproductive system.  In 2020, the latest year for which incidence data are available, in the United States, 18,518 new cases of Ovarian cancer were reported among women, and 13,438 women died of this cancer. For every 100,000 women, 9 new Ovarian cancer cases were reported and 6 women died of this cancer.

Cancer is the second leading cause of death in the United States, exceeded only by heart disease. One of every five deaths in the United States is due to cancer.”

Centers for Disease Control and Prevention – CDC  (https://gis.cdc.gov/Cancer/USCS/#/AtAGlance/)