A Retrospective Analysis of Clinicopathological Features and Outcomes of the Epithelial Ovarian Cancer among Patients Attending A Tertiary Hospital in Dhaka, Bangladesh.

Ovarian cancer is ranked as seventh commonest cancer and the eighth most common cause of cancer death among female worldwide. Epithelial ovarian cancer stands for the utmost deadly malignant disease of the female genital system. Usually it is diagnosed in advanced stages due to lack of clinical symptoms in the early stages. The aim of this study is to investigate the clinicopathological features and overall survival of epithelial ovarian cancer. This retrospective cohort study was conducted at the National Institute of Cancer Research and Hospital (NICRH), Dhaka, Bangladesh. Patients admitted in the department of Gynecological Oncology, NICRH, Bangladesh from January 2018 to June 2022 with histopathological confirmed epithelial ovarian cancer were included in this study. We analyzed 59 epithelial ovarian cancer cases with median age of 45 years (range: 36.5-55.0). Most patients (83.0%) were married. Abdominal swelling (59.0%) and anorexia (52.0%) were the most common clinical symptoms. Papillary serous cyst adenocarcinoma (76.3%) was the most common histopathological type. Most patients were diagnosed at the stage IIIC (37.3%). Overall survival rates were significantly (p