Cancer is the name for a disease that can affect cells from all the
organs and body’s structures and is considered to be life threatening.
The ovarian cancer is a disease that determines the cells from one or
both of the ovaries to divide in an uncontrollable way and create a
tumor.
Many women in the US are affected by ovarian cancer and it seems that
every year 20000 women get diagnosed with this affection and 15000
women end up dying because of it.
Women must be very attentive at any sign or symptom that could indicate
an ovarian cancer. The symptoms generally match with other affections
too but if the patient goes at the doctor’s for a check-up the doctor
will be able to tell whether it is cancer or not.
Some of the key symptoms are abdominal pain or pressure, bloating or
swelling, urgent urinating and pelvic discomfort. Some might experience
an indigestion that lasts a long time, nausea, the loss of appetite and
weight, fatigability, discomfort during sexual intercourse, and even a
low back pain.
Diagnosing ovarian cancer can take a lot of time from three to six
months because at first the digestive affections have to be eliminated
and then the urinary problems too. only if the symptoms persist a lot
of time then the doctor would consider the ovarian cancer a possibility.
The causes of the ovarian cancer are not known exactly, some doctors
say that one cause is the tissue repair process that starts functioning
after the egg is released, and others say that the feminine hormones
are guilty for the uncontrollable division of the cells.
The scientists have classified the ovary tumors in three: the
epithelial tumors which affect the postmenopausal women; the germ cell
tumors who affect young women and the stromal tumors which can be found
in the tissue that is responsible with the production of the feminine
hormones.
It seems that there are persons which are more exposed to ovarian
cancer than others. Persons that have inherited a gene which is
responsible with breast cancer or with colon cancer occurrence are
exposed to ovarian cancer too. Those who have a family history of
ovarian cancer are also at risk of having themselves the disease after
some years. Women who are at the menopause and who have never given
birth are at risk. Those women that have an ovarian cyst, who suffer of
unexplained infertility and who are obese since they were 18 can
develop ovarian cancer at a moment in their lives.
The best thing is to pay attention to any malfunctioning of your body
and to go for a check-up periodically because ovarian cancer is easier
to treat in its early stages and the recuperation of the patient is
faster if treatment is applied promptly.
