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Can a pep smear detect ovarian cancer? |
Can a pep smear detect ovarian cancer? suppose so No-Uterine Cancer pap smear no,cancer of the cervix thats all nurse No. A PAP smear can detect abnormal cervical cells. If a PAP comes back abnormal, then a cervical biopsy will be done to detect for cervical cancer. Ovarian cancer is detected another way....usually a cyst that is removed from the ovary and then analyzed. no, a pap smear is focused on cervical cells. Not on your ovaries. a pap smear helps determine the presence of malignant cells on the surface of the cervix. I would not be helpful to determine ovarian cancer, or a cyst. I don't think so. This is what I found: Pap tests screen for malignant and precancerous cells in the cervix, not the ovary. Pap tests can detect ovarian cancer, but usually only advanced cases. The same is true for pelvic exams, which can pick up earlier cancers in other organs. Scientists are studying several possible tools, mainly blood tests and sonograms, for screening for ovarian cancer. But they have yet to find a test that can pick up most early cases without mistakenly identifying many healthy women as having the disease. Over a lifetime, a woman has a 1-in-55 risk of getting ovarian cancer. Nearly three in four ovarian cancers aren't diagnosed until they have spread beyond the ovaries, making the disease the fourth-leading cancer killer of U.S. women. And though studies have found that ovarian cancer patients often report symptoms long before diagnosis, the symptoms resemble those of far more common ailments. Most screening research has focused on a blood test for a protein called CA-125, elevated in many women with ovarian cancer, and transvaginal ultrasound, an ultrasound performed with a small instrument placed in the vagina. Scientists from the National Cancer Institute's Prostate, Lung, Colorectal and Ovarian Cancer Screening Trial found a large number of false positives 鈥?healthy women identified as possibly having cancer 鈥?when they screened 28,816 women with CA-125, transvaginal ultrasound or both Not too promising. Here's where you can read the rest: http://www.usatoday.com/news/health/2006... |
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