Gynecology and Obstetrics

Women Reproductive Cancers

As discussed in many Gynecologic events and meetings occurring in the  worldwide, it is stated that around 70,000 women are diagnosed with gynecologic cancers in the USA, and half of those were uterine cancer diagnoses with deaths of 7,000 women per year. Ovarian cancer is found to be the 2nd most common gynecologic cancer with around  24,000 new cases every year, leading to 17,000 deaths per year. Mortality of cases in cervical cancer have been decreased as Pap smears have become common in place. however, there are about 11,000 diagnoses every year in which about 4,400 women die from this disease every year... 4,300 women are being diagnosed with vulvar cancer each year, in which there is about 900 deaths among them. Vaginal cancer account for about 2,500 diagnoses each year causing about 800 deaths. Every woman is at risk a gynecologic cancer. It is estimated that there will be around 97,000 new cases diagnosed and approximately causing 35,000 deaths from gynecologic cancers in the USA during the year 2015 stated as per The American Cancer Society, in which Uterine cancer may have the large portion of about 60% cases with an estimated mortality rate of approximately 18%. The Ovarian cancer has the highest mortality rate at 60%.