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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]My mother died as a result of ovarian cancer. I have yearly pelvic ultrasounds. It's not a silver bullet, but it's the best option there is right now for early detection.[/quote]

Can ovarian cancer be survived with early intervention?[/quote]

Early detection of ovarian cancer is unlikely, unless it is an incidental finding.[/quote]

The actress in the Marvel movies who was also in how I met your mother, is an ovarian cancer survivor.  Yes, it can be survived, depending on a bunch of things.  [/quote]

There’s a type of ovarian cancer that shows up in young women in their twenties that is slow-growing and treatable.  It’s not the same version that women with genetic predispositions get in their 40s or the type that shows up in their 60s.  It’s crappy but it’s true.  Ovarian cancer is often not visible on imaging studies.   I had a friend who went in for a prophylactic oophorectomy and they found ovarian cancer during her surgery.  She had multiple imaging studies done beforehand and it never appeared.  Ovarian cancer sucks and is a silent killer for a reason.  Maybe someday good screening tools will be available, but they just don’t exist right now.  [/quote]

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