Frequent abdominal pain, check for signs of ovarian cancer

Abdominal pain and abdominal bumps are a common phenomenon and many causes, but few people know that it may be an early sign of ovarian cancer. This has been confirmed by US scientists in a recent study.

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With this result we can diagnose and treat ovarian cancer more effectively. After conducting a medical examination of nearly 20,000 female patients, the scientists found that within 12 months before diagnosis, the risk of signs of abdominal pain and swelling on the abdomen of the women Women with ovarian cancer are 2 times more likely than women who do not have it.

Lead researcher Dr. Lloyd H. Smith said : "This result supports the idea that before ovarian cancer patients are diagnosed with early signs like this and if they pay attention, to those early signs we can completely diagnose this disease sooner for timely treatment.

Of course this does not mean that anyone who has these signs will have ovarian cancer because this is not a very common disease. But if those signs have an unclear cause, it's best for doctors to take a pelvic exam and check the patient's serum sample to see if they have ovarian cancer. '

Ovarian cancer is a disease that progresses very quickly, the disease can get worse within a year. Although the number of people suffering from the disease in the US has decreased since 1992, it is still the fourth most dangerous disease for women in the country. This year there will be about 22,000 cases diagnosed and about 16,210 people will die.

According to Dr. Robert Morgan Jr. , a member of the City of Hope Cancer Center's Cancer and Cancer Research Laboratory in California, this is a significant study because we know it. be sure that such signs are more common in ovarian cancer patients. He said that doctors need to be responsible for paying attention to these signs whenever they encounter them.

Dr. Samuel Mok , a scientist who is also working on ovarian cancer at Boston Maternity Hospital, agrees with Dr. Robert Morgan Jr.'s point of view. and said that doctors need to raise more awareness about this issue. He added that the majority of ovarian cancer studies focused on finding signs and measures to test early detection of the disease because clear signs only appear when the disease is severe.

Going back to this study, Dr. Smith and his colleagues used data from diagnostic codes of nearly 20,000 patients stored in computers to analyze and compare. All of these patients were women over 65 years of age, of which 1,985 people were identified as having ovarian cancer, 6,024 people with breast cancer and the remaining 10,941 did not have any cancer.

After comparing the results of the scientists' conclusions: the number of women with ovarian cancer is about twice as high as the signs of abdominal pain than women without cancer . These signs usually appear earlier 9 months to 1 year before diagnosis. Overall, all 40% of these women need to be examined for symptoms of abdominal pain or pelvic pain for a period of 36 days to 4 months before diagnosing ovarian cancer. However, only 25% of these patients received pelvic examination or CA125 serology 4 months before diagnosis. Most people only have abdominal scans or apply stomach tests that often give inaccurate results. In contrast, 54% of women with ovarian cancer had a pelvic exam or CA125 serology within 3 months before their illness was diagnosed.

Dr. Morgan said: " The application of gastric examination is not wrong, but if the results are not satisfactory, we need to pay attention because it may be signs of ovarian cancer. danger".