Survival from ovarian cancer has almost doubled over the last 30 years, figures from England show.
The five-year survival odds for women with early stages of the disease has increased from 21% in the early 1970s to 41% today, says Cancer Research UK.
Largely thanks to better treatments, this means over 1,000 more women a year in England and Wales are now surviving this cancer for at least five years.
But the charity says yet more needs to be done to spot tumours earlier.
Separate figures from the East of England Cancer Registry Information Centre - which covers Norfolk, Suffolk, Essex, Cambridgeshire, Bedfordshire and Hertfordshire - show women diagnosed with advanced ovarian cancer do not fare so well.
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