Thursday, August 28, 2008

Ovarian cancer outlined

Ovarian cancer is female genital mutilation one common tumor incidence rate of cervical cancer, and second only to cancer of the uterus and out rank third. But ovarian cancer death, accounts for all types of gynecologic tumors first to pose a serious threat to women's lives. Because the embryonic development of ovarian, organization anatomy and endocrine function more complicated, it may be suffering from benign tumors or malignant. Because of early ovarian cancer clinical asymptomatic, identify its type and benign and malignant quite difficult, ovarian carcinoma laparotomy found in the ovarian tumor confined to only 30 percent, most have spread to the uterus, bilateral annex, omentum and pelvic organs, both in ovarian cancer diagnosis and treatment, it is a major problem. Over the years experts on the pathological form of ovarian cancer, the development of clinical treatment programs and many of the accumulated a lot of experience, so far, statistics on domestic and foreign clinical data, the five-year survival rate of only 25% ~ 30%.