Ovarian Cancer's Causes

Women who have gone through the post-menopausal stage are diagnosed of this ailment. Also, those who suffer obesity, using fertility drug for more than one year, taking estrogen replacement therapy (Medication that contains female hormones) and can no longer bear a child.

Here are some possible assumptions of medical researches on what causes the ovarian cancer:

1. It may be the relationship of ovulation and risk of ovulation cancer. It concludes that women who have been pregnant and who have not been using contraceptive pills can be more susceptible of having this. Furthermore, the early start as well as the late start of having menstruation is also associated with ovarian cancer.
2. Another assumption is linking to cancer-causing substances enter through the vagina up to the ovaries.
3. Male hormones can be a cause of ovarian cancer like taking androgens.
4. Genetic factors can increase the risk of getting ovarian cancer. IF a person inherited a defect (mutation) from one of the parents, the cancer-preventing protein is less likely effective and that increase the chances of inherit the disease. Most women have this inherited gene mutation.
5. Experts say that the longer the hormone replacement therapy continues the more the women are at risk of getting it.
6. Once a person was diagnosed of breast cancer, it posed threat of having it as well.
7. Unhealthy diet leading to obesity is one possible factor. In most studies, overweight in later age have twice the risk of those who are perfectly fit.
8. 30% of women who have endometriosis ( cells inside the uterus are found emerging outside the uterus) and using Danazol medicine is one main possible cause

Tumors form in the ovaries if non-cancerous is benign or malignant if it is cancerous. Three types of tumor are epithelial cell (start on the lining of ovaries), germ cell (most are benign and found in the cell which produces the eggs), and stromal (start off in the cells make female hormones)

A related death under this cancer classification is well known to many. It kills 15,000 lives in the US each passing year and to countless number of women worldwide. Doctors, medical researches are still looking for accurate causes of this deadly ailment. Risk factors (age, obesity, reproductive history, gynecologic surgery, fertility drugs, androgens, estrogen and hormone therapy, and family history) of developing ovarian cancer do not mean that everyone can get the disease and do not apply to all.

Birth control pills as many people are unaware can decrease the possibility of having it to develop. Clinical studies reported that women who are taking the pills for more than 5 years are less likely susceptible to develop this kind of cancer with the percentage of 50-70%. Some other decreasing factors are having children and with no family history of cancer.


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