Women who have even one close relative with the disease increase their risk threefold. In addition, if a woman has had breast cancer , she is at an increased risk for ovarian cancer.
M. Steven Piver has written: 'Oncologia Ginecologica' 'Cancer & Genetics' 'Ovarian malignancies' -- subject(s): Cancer, Ovarian Neoplasms, Ovaries
It appears that birth control pills lower the lifelong risk of ovarian cancer.
A cyst can be either benign or malignant. A biopsy is the only way to know for sure. Go see your gyno.
The ovarian cancer is the type of cancer that stops periods. The ovarian cancer can also cause the post-menopausal women to start bleeding because the hormones that are produced make the lining of the womb thicker.
Sciatica and lower back pain are one of the most common symptoms of ovarian cancer. This is a symptom that is often overlooked by many women.
Clinical Ovarian Cancer was created in 2008.
There is no evidence that HPV causes ovarian cancer.
Wisconsin Ovarian Cancer Alliance was created in 2001.
A pap smear will not detect ovarian cancer. Ovarian cancer won't affect whether a pap smear is normal or abnormal -- it could be either one.
Abagovomab is an antibody found in mice which imitates the kind of tumours that cause ovarian cancer in humans.
Overall, ovarian cancer accounts for only 4% of all cancers in women
None. You cannot treat ovarian cancer with diet supplements.