How long can you live with advanced ovarian cancer

Ovarian tumor is one of the most common gynecological cancers. Usually, early detection has a good cure rate. However, since most ovarian tumors have no obvious symptoms in the early stage, when most women are diagnosed with ovarian tumors, they have usually spread and become advanced cancers. Therefore, the mortality rate of ovarian tumors accounts for a relatively high proportion of gynecological cancers.

Early symptoms are not obvious

Early ovarian tumors usually have no obvious symptoms. Most of the symptoms are abdominal discomfort, pain, some pelvic pressure, back pain, mild nausea and loss of appetite. A small number of cases will have abnormal uterine bleeding. Because early ovarian tumors are not easy to detect, ovarian tumors are usually close to the terminal stage after they are discovered. Ovarian tumors are like lung cancer in terms of preventive examinations. When health insurance does not cover various examination methods, the spreading cancer cells are often ignored.

Industrial pollution and genetics are the main causes of the disease

Most ovarian tumors have no specific cause, but a few medical reports have found that more ovarian tumors occur in industrial countries. Therefore, industrial pollution may be the main factor causing cell carcinogenesis in the body, but most ovarian tumors cannot find a clear cause. In addition, the damage caused by the opening and closing of the ovarian epidermis during ovulation has always been considered one of the main causes of ovarian tumors. In addition, genetic genes that are prone to disease are also one of the factors causing ovarian tumors.

Cancer cells have many pathways to spread

Ovarian tumors usually spread through malignant cells to other organs in the abdominal cavity, such as the peritoneal surface, the surface of the large and small intestines, the surface of the greater omentum, and the surface of the bladder and diaphragm. It is especially common to spread to the lower part of the right diaphragm and the greater omentum. Because the ascites in the abdominal cavity is absorbed from the upper two parts, cancer cells are easy to transfer to the lower part of the diaphragm and the greater omentum. Of course, there are other ways of spread, such as from the blood and lymph nodes.

Who is at high risk?

Ovarian tumor examinations include ultrasound, CT, cancer indicators, pathology, etc. People generally do not choose multiple examinations because the cost is too high and the health insurance does not cover it. Therefore, if people belong to the high-risk group, it is best not to ignore ultrasound, CT, cancer indicators, pathology and other examination methods when doing health examinations. The accuracy rate of examinations using several methods at the same time can be 80~90%.

High-risk groups: There is no certain cause of ovarian tumors. If a close relative (first or second degree relative) has ovarian tumor, or if you are a woman working in the chemical industry, it is best to be vigilant.