About 22,000 new cases of ovarian cancer are diagnosed in the U.S. each year and a new study of ovarian cancer patients finds nearly two-thirds of them are not getting the treatment recommended.
The risk of dying within 5 years went up 30 percent compared to those who received the recommended treatment.
The biggest factor is a lack of doctors and hospitals with experience.
Hospitals that treated less than 20 cases of ovarian cancer a year are less likely to follow recommendations established by the national comprehensive cancer network.
