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Ovarian Cancer, a Tumor Difficult to Diagnose

Posted on June 15th, 2010 under General Health. Post a comment

ovarian cancerAlthough ovarian cancer is highly curable if diagnosed early, 75% of cases worldwide are detected in advanced stages. This is because ovarian cancer is difficult to diagnose and often goes unnoticed for most physicians who are not oncologists.

Ovarian cancer can not be detected on physical examination during routine gynecological visit, as it grows up into the abdominal cavity. On the other hand, does not cause pain or other symptoms prior to suspect the disease when the tumor is small, there is no tumor marker for diagnosis.

Currently there are techniques such as CT image diagnosis, MRI, or PET, with which early diagnosis could be made, but very expensive. However, countries like England, are conducting studies that seek to detect early ovarian cancer by ultrasound and tumor markers in blood are analyzed.

Ovarian cancer affects mainly women between 45 and 75 years of age but can also affect younger women. Generally, in the early stages of the disease, tumor location is in a single ovary and the likelihood of cure is higher (90%).

Factors that predispose to ovarian cancer are not well defined. It is believed that heredity, or that there is a relationship between the number of pregnancies and the probability of suffering (the higher number of pregnancies, less likely to suffer). Similarly, contrary to what people think, those taking oral contraceptives are less likely to suffer from the disease.

In young women the presence of cysts may be normal and not more important, however menopausal women between 50 and 55 years of age, should follow up on these cysts, they may lead to ovarian cancer.

In advanced stages of the disease, is resorted to surgery that is often long and complicated, and then follows with a chemotherapy treatment.

Approximately 50% of cases are cured, but the other 50% of patients believed to have exceeded the cancer, or fall back to file a recurrence of the disease.

It has been observed that the more time passes since the end of treatment, the possibility that the disease recurs, the smaller but is never zero. (image by open.salon.com)

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