cinquemila persone colpite ogni anno in Italia
TUMORE DELL’OVAIO: IL PROBLEMA E’ L’IGNORANZA
30 donne su 100 non sanno la differenza con quello dell’utero. Solo l’11% sa che la diagnosi si fa con l’ecografia vaginale e controlli costanti. New treatments with anti-angiogenic
LONDON - Five Italian women are affected each year by ovarian cancer. Unfortunately, three thousand know when it is too late and the healing rates prove minimal. The disorders are in fact modest and confused with other situations, so you lose valuable time.
Besides this, there is also a problem of information. As it emerged from the meeting organized in Milan by the 'National Observatory ONDa and Roche, as many as 87% of women surveyed had never discussed the problem with your doctor or specialist, 70% do not know the problems and only 11% know that the vaginal ultrasound and pelvic examinations are essential for diagnosis.
The weakest link - has emerged from the reports - is the low level of symptoms, which may delay the suspicion and the diagnostic. Are reported bloating, pierced in the lower abdomen, bloating, altered bowel activity with alternating constipation and diarrhea, need to urinate often, feeling of fullness even uncomfortable with fasting and shortness of breath and swelling of the neck. Unfortunately, it was stigmatized, frequent recurrences of the disease appear. That is why the act can facilitate early surgical excision of the total mass.
remains a problem health education. Thirty percent of respondents reported that unfortunately does not know the difference between dependent tumor of the uterus and the ovary. For the first, in fact, exist on a national network of controls (Pap - tests) that can monitor, but within certain limits, the trend of health status. The regions, through the activities of local health authorities have established special health records with periodic evaluations. For the ovary, however, there are objective diagnostic difficulties, both clinical and instrumental, and therefore the road is all uphill.
Effect - It 's more in industrialized countries. An indirect cause may be represented assumption of fatty food, but the absence of pregnancy, infertility, pregnancy and late menopause increase the risk of delayed, which may decrease - however - with the oral contraceptive.
Origin and distribution - to 5% of the cases is related to genetic reasons. It spreads by direct extension or by the 'system of tumor cells in the peritoneum, or through the lymphatic and, through blood, though more rarely, liver and lungs.
enlarged ovaries and cancer - The probability that an ovary becomes enlarged when a cancer is directly proportional to the age of the patient. In practice, a woman in post - menopausal women with complex pelvic mass, it is useful to the implementation of the level of CA 125, the glycoprotein that 80% of cases, is the ability to display high-if - the presence of a tumor. Less indicative test is demonstrated in premenopausal patients.
Survival - Median survival of those affected, five years after diagnosis, s' around between five and forty percent.
surgery, chemotherapy, post - operative
and biological drugs are now available weapons. However, as reported Maurizio de Cicco, CEO of Roche, is to study biological molecules forms at an advanced stage, including the angiogenic drugs that are getting concrete successes. Are substances that act by blocking the formation of new blood vessels that carry blood and oxygen to the tumor. We wish them a speedy approval by the competent authorities.
GIAN UGO BERTI
(reproduction prohibited)
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