This type of ovarian cyst is “relatively uncommon,” says Lindemann, affecting about 1 to 2% of adult women. “Benign ovarian tumors are usually one cyst,” he says.

Complex ovarian cysts with wall abnormalities or solid areas are associated with significant risk for malignant disease, 1, 2 whereas unilocular ovarian cysts are associated with a less than 1% risk ...

The study, published in today's edition of The New England Journal of Medicine, involved reviewing the cases of 9,087 women ages 18 to 85, who had a biopsy of a benign breast lesion from 1967 ...

Ovarian cysts are not particularly scary but they can be if you neglect it. Benign ovarian cysts are non-cancerous where as the ones that are malignant can be cancerous and require treatment.