Post Date August, 05 2023
Ovarian cancer is a familiar disease and one of the terrifying gynecological diseases. In order to detect, detect, and treat ovarian cancer early, it is necessary to pay attention to changes in one's own body.
Symptoms of ovarian cancer
1. Pain: Malignant ovarian tumors may cause sustained swelling pain due to changes within the tumor, such as bleeding, necrosis, and rapid growth. During the examination, local tenderness was found.
2. Irregular menstruation: Occasionally seeing irregular uterine bleeding, bleeding after amenorrhea.
3. Slimming: Late stage weight loss.
4. Lower abdominal mass: 75% of malignant ovarian tumors grow on both sides, while only 15% of benign ovarian tumors grow on both sides.
5. Abdominal fluid accumulation: Benign ovarian tumors such as fibroids and papillary cystic adenomas can also be accompanied by abdominal fluid accumulation, but ovarian malignant tumors often combine with abdominal fluid accumulation. When malignant tumor cells pass through the capsule or metastasize to the peritoneum, the peritoneal effusion appears bloody.
6. Cachexia: Patients with prolonged course of disease may experience long-term consumption, loss of appetite, and progressive symptoms of cachexia such as weight loss, weakness, and fatigue.
Ovarian cancer self examination
1. Frequent contact with one's own abdomen and abdomen to check for lumps is an effective method for early detection of ovarian cancer.
The method of contact is to wake up and urinate in the morning, lie in bed, slightly bend your feet, and touch one side of your lower abdomen to the other. A blocky hard foreign body is suspected to be a tumor. Regardless of whether the tumor is large or small, and whether there is pain, it is important to immediately go to the hospital and have a gynecologist perform pelvic palpation and corresponding examinations, such as combining imaging examinations, to have a clear understanding of one's health status.
2. Attention should be paid to the feeling of compression in the abdomen, which should not be underestimated: if you occasionally feel discomfort or compression in the abdomen, accompanied by low back pain, long-term unexplained digestive or urinary tract symptoms, lower limb and vulva edema, these may be yellow card warnings issued by ovarian cancer. The best way to diagnose ovarian cancer is to undergo gynecological examination, with the help of modern imaging examinations such as B-ultrasound and generalized tumor marker examinations, to indicate that it has infiltrated surrounding tissues or adhered to adjacent tissues, compressing nerves and causing pain or edema.
Ovarian cancer examination
1. Exfoliative cytology examination: This examination method mainly uses the extraction of cells from the exfoliated tissue for diagnostic examination. The location of the extracted cells can be punctured and extracted from the vagina, cervical canal, uterine cavity, and the concave part of the uterus and rectum.
