Epithelial Ovarian Cancer and the Occurrence of Skin Cancer in The Netherlands: Histological Type Connotations

Table 1

Patients with epithelial ovarian cancers according to histological type and the occurrence of skin cancer.

	Ovarian cancer	Basal cell carcinoma	Melanoma	Other skin cancer	Total skin cancer
Histological type of ovarian cancer	n	n	n	n	n	%	95% CI^a
Adenocarcinoma	1456	25	0	8	33	2.3	1.5–3.1
Clear cell carcinoma	236	6	0	1	7	3.0	0.8–5.2
Endometrioid carcinoma	460	12	4	4	20	4.3	2.4–6.2
Mucinous carcinoma^b	733	10	5	3	18	2.5	1.4–3.7
Serous carcinoma	1640	38	4	7	49	3.0	2.2–3.9
Serous b.m.	161	1	0	0	1	0.6	0.0–7.0
Others^b, c	680	12	3	2	17	2.5	1.3–3.7
Total	5366	104	16	25	145	2.7	2.3–3.1

^a95% CI, confidence interval.
^bBorderline malignancies included.
^cIncluding mixed carcinoma, anaplastic carcinoma, malignant Brenner tumour, carcinosarcoma, adenosquamous carcinoma, squamous cell carcinoma.