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. 2020 Dec 16;12(12):3795. doi: 10.3390/cancers12123795

Table 1.

Frequency of ovarian cancer in pregnancy by tumor histology in the literature.

Author and Year
Histopathology Copeland, 1996 [25] Zanotti, 2000 [26] Zhao, 2006 [24] Behtash, 2008 [27] Morikawa, 2014 [25]
EOC 37.5% 33–34% 50% 39.1% 81%
Invasive EOC - - 22.7% 21.7% 20%
LMP - - 27.3% 17.4% 61%
Germ cell tumor 45% 30–33% 40.9% 47.8% 17%
SCT 10% 17–20% 9.1% 13% 2%
Others 7.5% 12–13% 0 0 0

EOC, epithelial ovarian cancer; LMP, low malignant potential tumor; SCT, sex cord stromal tumor.