Characteristics of familial ovarian cancer: a report of the first 1,000 families in the Gilda Radner Familial Ovarian Cancer Registry.

Abstract

given the limits of the study due to the voluntary nature of the Registry, the data suggests that familial ovarian cancer occurs at a younger age than the general population, daughters of mothers with ovarian cancers develop ovarian cancer at an age significantly younger than their mothers, mucinous and stromal tumors occurred significantly less often than in the general population, and the most common associated other cancers are female breast cancer and female and male colon cancer.