Risk Factors Associated with the Incidence of Ovarian Cancer

Abstract

Ovarian cancer is the biggest malignancy problem in female reproduction today. Dr. Hospital H. Abdul Moeloek as a referral center hospital in Lampung province has data that ovarian cancer is the most gynecological cancer with cases that have continued to increase over the past 3 years. The purpose of this study was to determine the risk factors associated with the incidence of ovarian cancer in RSUD Dr. H. Abdul Moeloek Lampung Province. This type of research is quantitative with a case-control design. The population was all patients treated in the gynecology room with 70 case samples taken using total sampling and 70 control samples using simple random sampling. The results showed that the factors related to the incidence of ovarian cancer in RSUD Dr. H. Abdul Moeloek included age (p-value = 0.001 and OR = 13.5 with 95% CI = 6.01-30.31), history of breastfeeding (p-value = 0.009 and OR = 2.684 with 95% CI = 1.326 -5.432), and a history of contraception (p-value = 0.001 and OR = 3.882 with 95% CI = 1.855-8.126). While the age of menarche and parity has no relationship with the incidence of ovarian cancer. From the research results expected, the high incidence of ovarian cancer in Lampung province can be socialized properly in society, so that people understand and can prevent ovarian cancer early.