Ovarian cancer: symptoms, diagnosis and treatment
Ovarian cancer: symptoms, diagnosis and treatment
Ovarian cancer is an oncological disease that is diagnosed in women of any age. The first clinical symptoms are quite worn out, so patients do not consult a doctor in a timely manner.
Types of Ovarian Cancer
Malignant neoplasm can beSerous, mucinous, endometrioid. More often, serous cancer is formed from cilioepithelial cystoma, a serous fluid accumulates inside the cystic formation. Germination of the capsule leads to metastasis and ascites.
Mucinous cancer is a tumor of new mucus. A breakthrough in the abdominal cavity threatens the pseudomixome of the peritoneum.
Endometrial cancer is characterized by a dense tumor. Most often it develops in women of childbearing age.
The rarest forms of ovarian cancer are mesonucleoid, or squamous, Brenner's tumors, stromal malignant neoplasms.
Symptoms of ovarian cancer
Danger of malignant neoplasmlies in the fact that until the third, fourth stage, the symptoms are absent or are manifested by a few complaints of bloating, nausea, indigestion, constipation. The woman does not even think to address to the gynecologist, writing off all on an error in a diet.
Diagnosis of ovarian cancer
Ultrasonic tomography, laparoscopy withSubsequent biopsy and cytology - the main types of diagnosis in ovarian cancer. Unfortunately, more than 60% of patients turn to the gynecologist, when pleurisy developed, ascites and the disease went too far. Metastases are found in the intestines, stomach, pancreas.
Treatment of ovarian cancer
As a treatment for ovarian cancer is appliedsurgical intervention and chemotherapy. With late diagnosis, remove the uterus with appendages, carry out resection of the large omentum. In the preoperative period with a large tumor, chemotherapy is recommended. Radiation therapy is effective only after relapse after surgery. Survival of patients is high, if ovarian cancer was diagnosed at an early stage, and the patient underwent a complete course of therapy.
