Established risk factors for ovarian cancer increasing age and a family history of ovarian cancer. Evidence for other risk factors has been less consistent.

Clinical resource

• Advice about familial aspects of breast and epithelial ovarian cancer: a guide for health professionals. (1.62 MB)
  Publication date: December 2010
   
• To assess familial risk of breast or ovarian cancer, with additional family history scenarios not included in the guide above, visit the online familial risk assessment tool for breast and ovarian cancer - referred to as (FRABOC).