Epidemiological and Genetic Factors Associated With Ovarian Cancer

Monica R. McLemore, RN, MPH; Christine Miaskowski, RN, PhD, FAAN; Bradley E. Aouizerat, PhD, MAS; Lee-may Chen, MD; Marylin J. Dodd, RN, PhD, FAAN

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Cancer Nurs. 2009;32(4):281-288.

Risk Factors

A number of epidemiological studies have evaluated a variety of risk factors for ovarian cancer. To date, these risk factors include age,^[1,16,20] chronic inflammation, nonsteroidal anti-inflammatory drug (NSAID) use,^{[24,25,26,27,28]} diet,^{[29,30,31,32,33,34,35,36,37,38,39]} ethnicity,^[9,18,19] hormone replacement therapy (HRT),^{[9,16,17,40,41]} hysterectomy,^[17,42] infertility drug use,^{[43,44,45,46,47]} obesity,^[48,49,50] OCP use,^{[13,16,17,20]} parity (pregnancy),^[13,15,16] smoking,^{[51,52,53,54,55,56,57,58,59]} and talc use/asbestos exposure.^{[60,61,62,63,64]} The following sections summarize published data on these risk factors for ovarian cancer.

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