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Who Is Most Likely To Get Ovarian Cancer?
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What Is It?
Ovarian cancer is the uncontrolled growth of abnormal cells in the ovaries, the female reproductive organs that produce eggs. Ovarian cancer cells comes from one of three areas in the ovary. Cancer cells forming in the surface layer of the ovary (epithelial carcinoma) are the most common. Cancer cells forming from the egg-producing cells (germ-cell tumors) and from within the supportive tissue around the ovaries (stromal tumors) are less common.
The disease often does not cause any...
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From Our Experts
A Gynecologist Answers our Questions about Ovarian Cancer
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Source: National Cancer Institute
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Ovarian Cancer: Prevention
Source: ADAM Encyclopedia
Up to 95% of women diagnosed with ovarian cancer will survive longer than 5 years if their cancers are treated before they have spread beyond the... Read more »
Ovarian Cancer: Symptoms
Source: ADAM Encyclopedia
and PreventionOvarian cancer is the ninth most common cancer in women, and the fifth leading cause of female cancer death. Each year in the United... Read more »
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(Ivanhoe Newswire) -- Young women with early-stage ovarian cancer can preserve fertility by keeping at least one ovary or the uterus without... Read more »
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