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Ovarian and uterine cancer

This page points at research, and at resources published by other organisations. It is not advice about your own care or treatment.

Research

One paper on ovarian and uterine cancer, from the research assessed for this site.

Each summary below was written for this site, and it is not the authors’ own abstract. None of it has been reviewed by Hei Āhuru Mōwai. It was read in full. Each entry carries the note of what was read, because a summary built from an abstract carries less weight than one built from the paper.

  1. Equity of Cancer and Diabetes Co-Occurrence: A National Study With 44 Million Person-Years of Follow-Up (opens on the publisher’s website)

    JCO Global Oncology · 2023

    Jason Gurney, James Stanley, Andrea Teng, Bridget Robson, Nina Scott, Dianne Sika-Paotonu, Chunhuan Lao, Ross Lawrenson, Jeremy Krebs, Jonathan Koea

    What it found
    Linking national health records for close to five million people over 44 million person-years, the study found people with diabetes had higher cancer rates than people without it, in every ethnic group, with Māori carrying both the highest age-standardised rate (1,303.6 per 100,000 person-years) and the highest rate ratio (1.37, against 1.23-1.35 for the other groups measured). Uterine, pancreatic, kidney and liver cancers showed the strongest links to diabetes across all groups. It is a descriptive study: it establishes the size of the co-occurring burden by ethnicity, not why the gap exists.
    How it was done
    retrospective national cohort using linked administrative data, close to 5 million people, 44 million person-years, 2008-2018
    Why it matters
    It gives a population-level size and shape to the diabetes-cancer overlap Māori carry disproportionately, which matters for anyone planning screening or comorbidity care.
    What it does not settle
    Descriptive/observational - no causal claim is made or should be drawn. There is a related but distinct 2022 PLOS ONE paper by an overlapping author group with a very similar title ("Cancer and diabetes co-occurrence: A national study with 44 million person-years of follow-up", DOI 10.1371/journal.pone.0276913) - worth not conflating the two. I read the full text via the PMC open-access copy.

    Full textfull text (PMC open-access copy)

    Read it free: Equity of Cancer and Diabetes Co-Occurrence: A National Study With 44 Million Person-Years of Follow-Up (opens on another organisation’s website)DOI 10.1200/GO.22.00357

Published by other organisations

2 booklets and reports published by other organisations. These belong to whoever wrote them and are not hosted here. Every link goes to the publisher’s own page for the resource.

Which of these appear, and how they are grouped, is a choice made for this site. It is not Hei Āhuru Mōwai’s view on what any of them says. What each one records about its edition, including where a newer one has been published since, is shown with the resource, along with any funding statement the publisher makes.

Cancer Council Australia

2 resources · on cancer.org.au

  • Understanding Cervical Cancer: A guide for people affected by cancer (opens on Cancer Council Australia’s website)

    Booklet · 2023

    Cancer Council Australia's booklet on cervical cancer, December 2023 edition, developed by Cancer Council NSW on behalf of all state and territory Cancer Councils and reviewed about every two years.

    Currency: Cancer Council Australia has replaced the multi-chapter booklet with a shorter 8-page fact sheet, item code CAN26652, dated 12/25 (December 2025). This supersedes the December 2023 edition in the catalogue. Subtitle changed from "a guide for people with cancer, their families and friends" to "a guide for people affected by cancer".

    The publisher states: This fact sheet is funded through the generosity of the people of Australia.

  • Understanding Ovarian Cancer: A guide for people with cancer, their families and friends (opens on Cancer Council Australia’s website)

    Booklet · 2024

    Cancer Council Australia's booklet on ovarian cancer, May 2024 edition, developed by Cancer Council NSW on behalf of all state and territory Cancer Councils and reviewed about every two years.

    Currency: Newer edition confirmed in the PDF itself: "First published September 2003. This edition May 2026." This replaces the May 2024 edition in the catalogue. Still the full 76-page booklet format, title unchanged.

    The publisher states: This booklet is funded through the generosity of the people of Australia.

In our library

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