Ovarian Cysts
Every woman who has a normal menstrual cycle, once a month, is alive with the formation of benign cysts in the ovary - this is a small sac that is filled with fluid, or the ovarian follicle. When the egg begins to ripen, it breaks and cleanses the egg, this occurs during ovulation. However, when ovulation does not happen, this pouch grows further, forming the cyst in the least. Due to the fact that it appears from normal tissues and every month it changes, it is called a functional cyst, as a rule, it disappears before the beginning of the next cycle. Otherwise, it should be investigated.
There is a different kind of cyst that forms in the ovary after the egg is squeezed out. The cavity is filled with new cells and blood vessels to form a yellow body, it produces progesterone, preparing the organism for pregnancy. Typically, such yellow bodies exist for two weeks, and then if a woman becomes pregnant, they skukozhivayutsya and form a small scar. However, if the ovary bleeds and blood gets into the yellow spot, a cyst may form, which will be filled with blood. Only now such a cyst, too, passes a month later.
Another species of ovarian cysts is small tumors that are filled with liquid, and can even be hair and fat. Some of them are filled with mucus and grow to the size of 9 months of pregnancy.
There are a dozen types of cysts, and only seven of them are functional, which pass by themselves before the menstrual cycle begins. If the cyst lasts longer, bleeding and pain occurs, or if it reaches a larger size, then you need to go to the doctor. If you examine it with ultrasound, you can explain the degree, size and type of the cyst.
Many kystynikak do not show up, so you may not even know that it is in your stomach until the doctor tells you about it during the examination. However, if cystic tumors reach a large size, they can press on the bladder, abdominal wall or intestine. With such a cyst, pain and nausea may occur. Often this happens very quickly, but sometimes it can last a long time. Be that as it may, you must go to the doctor to examine you.
How to be now?
To begin, plan a trip to the gynecologist. If this year you did not pass the examination, then do it now. Any woman should be checked at a gynecologist at any age. Without inspection, you do not learn that your cyst grows, until it becomes too large.
Any cyst that has not disappeared in a month and has grown by more than 5 cm, in a woman who has saved the menstrual cycle or 2 cm in a woman who has reached the menopause, should be examined and in any case removed, even if it is of good quality. This is done so that it does not break through and does not twist and to make sure that this is a non-malignant cystic tumor. With the help of color ultrasound, you can identify a variety of cysts.
Blood testing, especially in women who have menopause, can also be valuable information. If women have good results of ultrasound examination and positive results of analysis of CA-125, then the risk that the cyst will be a malignant is very small.
Laparoscopy can remove the cyst, but only not when it is very large. In this case, the operation with a section of the abdominal wall will be selected faster, so the doctor can better examine the ovaries.
Can I just drain the cysts, and not delete them if they are benign?
This can not be done, because they can be restored after they are dried. Moreover, when the doctor completely removes them, you can fully examine them under a microscope to make sure that they are not malignant.
Is it necessary to carry out a hysterectomy when removing cysts?
Now they do not do this, but there was a time when they practiced it. Any woman of climacteric age had to do extensive cavitary surgery to remove the uterus, so that in the future there were no problems.
If a woman is sick with an ovarian cyst, then the risk of developing ovarian cancer is increasing?
At all net.Esli a woman has a cyst, it does not say that she is more predisposed to cancer.
Ovarian Cancer
Among cancer diseases, as the cause of death in women, ovarian cancer is on the fourth place. In America every year 22,000 new patients with such a disease are registered. In women under 40, ovarian cancer is rare, but after that the risk of the disease increases, although it is not as common as breast, rectum or lung cancer. At an early stage it is very easy to fight with it, but it is actually very repulsive because, that it is possible to determine it at an early stage very often, although only one woman of seventy is ill with this. When, finally, the time comes and the ovarian cancer is diagnosed, it already imperceptibly penetrates other organs, in contrast to endometrial cancer and cervical cancer, which develop very slowly, they can be detected even at the precancerous stage.
Ovarian cancer is a vile cancer, because it has no symptoms at an early stage: no pain, no signs of anxiety, no bleeding, no visible tumors. Moreover, in our time there are not so good methods that can suspect its development at an early stage.
How to be now?
Every year, do not forget to visit the gynecologist, who will examine the ovaries and feel their dimensions and irregularities.
Tell your doctor if your family has had malignant tumors, so that the doctor can watch you more closely and conduct inspections more often.
Ask the doctor if you need to take oral contraceptives. There are some information that indicate that if a woman has a family history of a malignant tumor, then she is prescribing such drugs that reduce the risk of endometrial cancer and ovarian cancer by almost 50%. In addition, they protect the woman for another fifteen years after the end of their reception.
When everyone can have access to tests that can detect a defective gene that causes women to be located in ovarian cancer, let the gynecologist and you have this analysis if someone in your family has suffered from cancer.
Why can not we detect ovarian cancer at an early stage?
Normal healthy ovaries in diameter are only two inches, they are located deep in the abdominal cavity and can reach a large extent until it is found during examinations. Even ultrasound does not always distinguish the cancer of benign tumors, and now there are no such ideal tests that could detect cancer cells.
Why does ovarian cancer appear?
Doctors can not yet establish specific causes. However, it is known that women who have never been pregnant, especially those who are not protected from sex for many years, are more susceptible to the risk of ovarian cancer. There are also studies that say that diets with a high fat content can increase this risk. But women-vegetarians are ill with ovarian cancer by 40% less.
Preparations for infertility can cause ovarian cancer?
The likelihood of this is very small, but women who are infertile have a higher risk of developing ovarian cancer. There have been a lot of research on this, but they did not show an increase in the number of ovarian cancer cases in subjects who took such drugs and subsequently got pregnant. There are only cases when women were treated for infertility and did not become pregnant, but they developed ovarian cancer. Perhaps it's not in the drugs, but in the presence of women's deviations, thanks to which a woman can not become pregnant, and the tundra cells begin to become more active.