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Ovarian Cancer Incidence Corrected For Oophorectomy, Lauren A. Baldwin, Quan Chen, Thomas C. Tucker, Connie G. White, Robert N. Ore, Bin Huang
Ovarian Cancer Incidence Corrected For Oophorectomy, Lauren A. Baldwin, Quan Chen, Thomas C. Tucker, Connie G. White, Robert N. Ore, Bin Huang
Obstetrics and Gynecology Faculty Publications
Current reported incidence rates for ovarian cancer may significantly underestimate the true rate because of the inclusion of women in the calculations who are not at risk for ovarian cancer due to prior benign salpingo-oophorectomy (SO). We have considered prior SO to more realistically estimate risk for ovarian cancer. Kentucky Health Claims Data, International Classification of Disease 9 (ICD-9) codes, Current Procedure Terminology (CPT) codes, and Kentucky Behavioral Risk Factor Surveillance System (BRFSS) Data were used to identify women who have undergone SO in Kentucky, and these women were removed from the at-risk pool in order to re-assess incidence rates …