Mortality

There were 3,522 deaths from ovarian and fallopian tube cancer (C56-C57 in ICD-10) per year on average in 2015 to 2019 (17,610 over the five-year period). The overall crude mortality rate was 12.5 deaths per 100,000 person-years. See Appendix 1 for a full cohort definition, including an explainer for why only C56 and C57 could be reported for mortality.

Age standardisation was used to enable comparison of sub-ICBs with different age profiles. Age standardised mortality rates in the 106 sub-ICBs ranged from 8.7 to 18.3 per 100,000 person-years.

Mortality data by sub-ICB, ICB and Cancer Alliance and for all of England are available in Table 3 of the accompanying Excel workbook available from the data downloads section.

Figure 4. Ovarian and fallopian tube cancer: directly age standardised mortality rates by sub-ICB, 2015 to 2019

Mortality rates from cancer are driven by many factors including incidence rates (how many patients get cancer), stage (how advanced their disease is at the time of diagnosis), comorbidities (other health conditions) and treatments received. Mortality rates do not specify how long patients survive after diagnosis or treatment.