Prevention of ovarian cancer - Let's do something

摘要

Ovarian cancer is the fifth-leading cause of death by cancer for women in the developed world and is the most deadly of the gynecological malignancies (1). Despite significant progress in the field of gynecological cancer treatment during recent decades, the prognosis has remained poor, and preventive strategies are urgently needed.New data on the pathogenesis of ovarian cancer may serve as a basis for a completely new attitude towards this disease (2-4). Recent data indicate that there are two major types of ovarian cancers. Type I, with a slow growth, is confined to the ovaries and genetically stable. In contrast, type II is highly aggressive and includes often undifferentiated serous and mixed mesodermal tumors (5).