We acknowledge the ongoing concerns of women with endometriosis, a chronic gynaecological condition affecting about 176 million women worldwide, regarding information about their increased ovarian cancer risk. Endometriosis is an inflammatory disease process characterised by lesions of endometrial-like tissue outside the uterus—commonly on the pelvic peritoneum and ovaries—that is associated with debilitating pelvic pain and infertility.1 Although benign, endometriosis has cancer-like features,2 a mutation profile similar to that of ovarian cancer,3 and an increased ovarian cancer risk.
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