Alice S Whittemore
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Personal characteristics relating to risk of invasive epithelial ovarian cancer in older women in the United States.
Cancer. 1993; (2 Suppl): 558-65
The ovarian cancer incidence rate is higher for women over 55 years of age than for younger women, but it increases less rapidly with age after age 55 years than before. This slower rate of increase suggests that the postmenopausal ovary may be less exposed or less susceptible than the functioning one to endogenous or exogenous carcinogens. For example, it is not exposed to mitotic stimuli at follicle rupture, which may increase the likelihood of malignancy.
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