Socio-Demographic and Clinicopathological Study of Ovarian Cancer in Tertiary Care Hospital of North Central Region of India

Ovarian cancer has progressively become leading cause of death in females of worldwide and has second position in the most common gynecological malignancy in India. This study was to evaluate the causative factors, clinical and histopathological detail of ovarian cancer cases registering in cancer hospital in Gwalior, and to increase awareness of gynecological malignancy among central region of India. Study was carried out in 56 cases of clinically proven ovarian cancer patients at cancer hospital and research institute, Gwalior, India. Different variables including age of patients at diagnosis, parity of patients, clinical profile includes levels of CA125, histological types and socio-demographic data were collected and analyzed. In this study, 87.5% of the cases were suffering from malignant while only 12.5 % had benign tumor. Most common symptom of complaints is abdominal distension (48.21%), abdominal pain (32.14%) and lower abdominal lump (26.78%). Multiparty was associated with the malignant ovarian cancer in 85.71% patients. This study found the epithelial ovarian cancer as the most common malignancy and both serous (25%) and mucinous cyst adenocarcinoma (21.42%) was the common variant of ovarian carcinoma found in our stud