First welcome to the forum although it's not a nice "club" to be a member of

OK be a bit careful here with statistics there are other factors at play

For example did you look at survival by age?

www.cancerresearchuk.org/.../ovarian-cancer-survival-statistics

That's a significant factor

My wife had peritoneal cancer closely related to ovarian so I know a bit about this lot of discussions with oncologists and a lot of reading research papers.

The chances are that your wife may be offered debulking surgery if approriate to remove as much as possible and put on chemotherapy (not nearly as scarey as you think) probably a platinum based drug like carboplatin perhaps in combination with one that was firsty derived from pacific yew trees called pacliataxel.

That's pretty much seen as the recommended treatment route.

They'll monitor probably with a blood test if the blood test reflects her cancer progression and the chances are that the cancer will die down.

The most significant predictor of her prognosis will be how long it takes for the cancer to come back - over a year is a good sign, less than 6 months is bad.

Melanies was a bit under a year and she survived 3 years in total but hers was different, and actually a bit unusual and quite aggressive and she was stage 3 at diagnosis so I wouldn't read too much into those actual numbers but the point about the recurrance interval stands.

Bear in mind too that often 5 year survival means *at least 5 years survival*

This will be very scarey for her - she'll need lots of reassurance and support and there are a lot of practical things you'll be able to do too. My work was very good about time off and I always went with her for her chemo sessions just talk to her and be theres - its actually very boring!

Seeing oncologists can be nerve wracking and its easy to forget the things you want to know keeping a list and prompting her when she forgot to ask something she'd mentioned in the week was one of my jobs - try not to take over remember its her illness not yours.

Some women are very concerned about hairloss on chemo my wife was not - I had to shave her head for her which was a bit disconcerting -  but you'll want to give her plenty of reassurance about that.

Get in touch with the McMillan team at the hospital or on line - they can help in so many ways

Final piece of advice - get her to come on the forum and talk to all the other lovely people on here who are fighting and winning