Ovarian cancer

Cancer is a disease that can occur anywhere in the body which is caused by a damaged gene that are forced to work that causes cancer cells to grow out of control. Some types of cancers grow and spread quickly throughout the body or take more time to grow. A tumor forms with most cancers, though some are benign meaning not cancerous while ones with cancer are called malignant. One form of cancer known as ovarian cancer is the one that this research paper presents information about. Ovarian cancer…

grandmother had been diagnosed with stage four ovarian cancer on may twenty eighth, two thousand fifteen. My grandmother was a woman of faith and morales, and she believed that god does things for a reason. She had been given a death sentence but her faith was unfailable. She was diagnosed at the age of sixty eight and the motality rate of women with ovarian cancer older than sixty insurmountable. Ninety two percent of women diagnosed with ovarian cancer after the age of sixty five die within…

Ovarian cancer (OC) is the fifth-leading cause of deaths relating to cancer, with less than half of all patients surviving for more than 5 years following diagnosis. It affects women of all ages, most commonly diagnosed after menopause and aged between 55-65 years, 75% of whom are diagnosed at an advanced stage of the disease. Risk factors include age, hormone therapy, and most notably genetic syndromes, such as BRCA1 mutations which are involved in 10% of OC cases. This essay will present the…

the ways Ovarian cancer affects women Central idea: What is Ovarian Cancer? Introduction I. I Believe I need to bring this to your attention because it is a serious topic. II. Ovarian cancer is a cancer that begins in the ovaries and can spread to stomach or pelvis. III. I chose this topic because I personally know someone who had ovarian cancer and I have had problems with my ovaries and it always interested me to know what ovarian cancer really was. IIII. This speech is about ovarian cancer…

Ovarian cancer is a cancer that begins in an ovary.[1] It results in abnormal cells that have the ability to invade or spread to other parts of the body.[2] When this process begins, symptoms may be vague or not apparent, but they become more noticeable as the cancer progresses. These symptoms may include bloating, pelvic pain, and abdominal swelling, among others.[3] Common areas to which the cancer may spread include the lining of the abdomen, lining of the bowel and bladder, lymph nodes,…

Characteristics: Ovarian cancer refers to any growth in the ovary. Ovarian cancer begins in the ovaries and then can spread to other locations. 3 types of ovarian cancer are, epithelial tumors, stromal tumors, and germ cell tumors. Causes/Risk Factors: There is not a clear cause to ovarian cancer. Ovarian cancer begins when a genetic mutation turns normal cells into abnormal cancer cells. Cancer cells can quickly multiply and forming a tumor. Risk factors that can increase the risk of ovarian…

Ovarian Cancer is an adult onset genetic disease that is often fatal. This type of cancer occurs when cells in a female’s ovaries grow abnormally and too many cells are produced. The cancer cells can then spread to other parts of a woman’s body (Cancer.net, 2016). The ovaries, located on either side of the uterus, are two small almond shaped glands that produce the female hormones, estrogen and progesterone. The ovaries also release eggs during a woman’s years of reproduction, starting with her…

was truly physically unable to. In 1956, age 36, Franklin discovered that she had ovarian cancer (Biography “Rosalind Franklin”). How she came to develop this cancer is debated, whether is was due to the radiation of working with x-ray crystallography (Bagley) or possibly that it was the wicked irony of the gene being in her own DNA due to the fact that Ashkenazi Jews have a “hereditary predisposition to ovarian cancer” (Famous Scientists “Rosalind Franklin”). Beginning treatment, Franklin went…

Introduction: Ovarian cancer is the deadliest of the reproductive cancers, killing two out of every three women diagnosed with it. Cancer is when cells grow and divide quickly and then the area with cancer develops a tumor, if/when the cancer spreads to other surrounding organs, it can ultimately lead to death. Ovarian cancer is often called the “silent killer,” because doctors had not known that there were symptoms, until recently. Although, what little symptoms there are, are also symptoms of…

awareness about ovarian cancer although this has not become the serious issue in the world, it need time and people’s attention to build this up. Instead of immediate information about missing children, an App could be a better way to express the ovarian cancer. The App should contain what is ovarian cancer and how serious it would be. ovarian cancer is dangerous to every signal and this would be specifically represent in the app and this should rise enough awareness about ovarian cancer and in…