Buried in the pelvis, the ovaries are difficult to study. Thus, cancers that affect them are often discovered too late. On improving the provision of treatment, the prognosis is closely related to early treatment.

Ovarian cancer is cancer women's fifth place in the United States, with 4 000 new cases per year. But his prognosis is still very depressing because it is often detected at a late stage. Panorama of an unknown disease.

Ovarian cancer is relatively rare. Too often detected at a late stage, it is difficult cancers to treat. As it is detected late, ovarian cancer has a grim prognosis. Each year, 3 800 U.S. will die of cancer. The survival rate for ovarian cancer is over 30% over 5 years, but for breast cancer, it is about 75%.

Few women are genetically predisposed to ovarian cancer. Genetic factors are responsible for 5 to 10% of ovarian cancers. Between 160 and 320 women with hereditary cancer of the ovary every year. Family mutations in certain genes BRCA1 and BRCA2 are rare, are known to greatly predispose this type of cancer, with an earlier age (before 50 years). Changing these genes are also responsible for predisposition to breast cancer.

Without benefitiating testing have ovarian cancer, long nicknamed the silent killer because symptoms are expected to appear at an advanced stage of disease. But the results of a recent study could detect this cancer faster.

Early detection is a challenge: 70 to 90% of women with ovarian cancer is detected in a first step, still alive five years after diagnosis, compared to only 20 to 30% of those with cancer was diagnosed at an advanced stage. And, unfortunately, is the second scenario, more often affected. . . Some figures indicate that awareness of this scourge, female: 4 488 new cases and 3 508 deaths directly related to the disease in 2006

Typical symptoms: Beware of the trio!

The researchers followed the 1 408 women who were asked to complete an anonymous questionnaire about symptoms experienced in previous years. Among the proposed events can include pelvic pain, abdominal pain, lower back, the urge to urinate, constipation, unexplained weight loss, etc.. Severity, duration and frequency of these symptoms have also been informed. The same procedure was conducted on 128 women awaiting surgery for pelvic tumors, including ovarian cancer.

Ovarian cancer is no longer the silent killer immeasurable. Even women with cancer in the initial symptoms. Highlighting some of the symptoms (or rather their frequency or severity), it may be possible to respond in time!

Diagnosis of ovarian cancer based on clinical, gynecological and determination of tumor markers, supplemented by medical imaging examinations, including pelvic ultrasound and magnetic resonance imaging. But only surgical exploration allows a comprehensive diagnosis of local spread of ovarian cancer.

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