WORLD JOURNAL OF ADVANCE
HEALTHCARE RESEARCH

Monaji Sanjana* and Ankit Thakur

ABSTRACT

Ovarian cancer is the most common cancer which is in top fourth place with incidence of 4.9 cases per 100,000. It accounts for about 90% of all cancers that leads to death from gynecological cancers. Despite of the clinical development in this era the factors that regulate the development of ovarian cancers is still least understood. The gonadotropins are thought to be key regulators in the ovarian cell functions and the pathogenesis of the ovarian cancer. There are different types of ovarian cancer out of which ovarian epithelial cancer is the most common type of cancer. Epithelial cancers can be benign, borderline or malignant based on the ability of growth. The clinical manifestations, imaging can be used to differentiate benign and malignant ovarian cancers. Many tumors are associated with abnormal hormonal activity and abnormal sexual development. In this article we focused on the aetiology and types of ovarian cancer. There are different types of hypothesis which explain the risk of ovarian cancer which are given in brief explanation in our article.