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Specialization benefits women with advanced disease.(ovarian cancer)(Brief Article)
2002 SEP 5 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- An estimated 23,300 new cases of ovarian cancer will be diagnosed in 2002, making it the fifth leading cause of cancer death among women in the U.S. For the majority of patients, ovarian cancer is currently not detected until it has reached its later stages, after the cancer has spread to the upper abdomen and other parts of the body, when successful treatment is least likely.
Although the cause of ovarian cancer is not known, the risk of ovarian cancer increases with age and is greater for women with a family history of ovarian cancer or with a personal history of cancer (e.g., endometrial, colon, or breast cancer), as well in those women who have not had children. And though ultrasound of the ovaries, pelvic examinations, and a blood test for a tumor marker called CA125 are available, screening for ovarian cancer is still not effective enough to be recommended for the general population and current tests cannot always find early ovarian cancer.
Recent studies suggest that women with ovarian cancer who were treated by a gynecological oncologist were more likely to receive the appropriate treatment than those treated by other doctors, and that women with advanced ovarian cancer lived significantly longer when treated by a gynecological oncologist.
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