2012 Canadian trends in cancer prevalence - Stats Canada

Blogger's Note: aside from 2 lines of stats, there is no specific reference/s to ovarian cancer (use search term: ovary)

(html version) http://www.statcan.gc.ca/pub/82-003-x/2012001/article/11616-eng.htm

 pdf - Canadian trends in cancer prevalence

"In Canada, the rate at which new cancer cases are diagnosed continues to
rise,4 and survival is also increasing.5-7 A recent study provided a detailed report of cancer prevalence in Canada as of January 1, 2005.8 However, cancer prevalence trends are rarely published, and until now, have not been reported for Canada......

Conclusion
This study presents the f rst Canadian cancer prevalence trend estimates to be reported. Trends in prevalence for an extensive list of cancers by time since diagnosis, sex and age group signachanges in the extent of disease in the Canadian population. Rising cancer prevalence proportions are due to increases in incidence, which partly result from the aging of the population, and to improvements in survival. Information about the degree to which changes in prevalence are occurring, and for which cancers in particular, is valuable for
resource planning