The same analysis found that Black women had a 45 percent higher mortality risk than white women. Epithelial ovarian cancer is the deadliest gynecologic cancer, with only about half of patients alive five years after diagnosis. These are nonspecific, which is part of why ovarian cancer is often diagnosed late, and they warrant a clinician visit rather than self-assessment. Among 2,544 women with epithelial ovarian cancer, those in highly socially vulnerable neighborhoods had a 20 percent higher mortality risk. Standard ovarian cancer treatment is unchanged.