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Why Does Ovarian Cancer Have a Poor Prognosis?

Why does ovarian cancer have a poor prognosis? Is it because specific signs rarely appear until after secondary tumors develop?

  1. Denisedds
    August 25th, 2010 at 21:35 | #1

    It is partially because there are no symptoms early on (only 30% are found in stages I-II). Partially because the symptoms when they do present are very nonspecific and almost every woman has had them at one time or another. It is also partially because when it is found it is very difficult to get it all if it is not confined to the pelvic tissues. Unlike most cancers ovarian cancer does not often spread to other organs it spreads along the serosal surfaces and encases the abdominal organs.

  2. iceman
    August 25th, 2010 at 21:35 | #2

    Yeah basically.

    It is a cancer that often is symptomless until it spreads. And it can spread to vital organs before a diganosis is made.

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