Breakthrough in Ovarian Cancer Research!!!!

Huge Breakthrough in Ovarian Cancer

Pass this along to your friends, sisters, aunts, nieces, wives, mums!

The local newspaper announced there has been a breakthrough in treating and finding ovarian cancer.
Now this isn't exactly a blah entry. This is huge!  The way women have been screened and treated for many many years before is about to change!!!

Read the article!

Some points about the old facts and hopeful ones for the new facts:
*Approximately 310 women are diagnosed with ovarian cancer in B.C. each year, and about 220 women die from ovarian cancer each year in the B.C. province.

*Most cases of “high grade serous ovarian cancer” are diagnosed at a late stages 3 or 4, and in those cases, only 15 per cent of women survive five years.

*Researchers also discovered that 18 per cent of women who developed ovarian cancer had a previous hysterectomy.

*Researchers now know that leaving the Fallopian tubes intact increases the risk of ovarian cancer.

*Survival rates for women diagnosed early are much better — about 90 per cent.

Those are just some of the facts that women learn about ovarian cancers from the time they get their first period.

Of course with the new procedures being implemented with removal and treatments, I'm curious to see how the stats are going to change, hopefully in favor of women everywhere around the world!

First thought that popped into my head when hearing this news:
1) Compared to before, how will, if at all, removing the fallopian tubes affect entering menopause and/or existing menses?
2) Will this change the percent of women affected by other types of cancer due to having this new form of hysterectomy?
3) In some cases will removing the ovaries still be necessary?

*Researches believe these surgical changes, combined with genetic testing and identification of family members at high risk could decrease ovarian cancer by 50 per cent over two decades

Maybe one day we'll be able to look back and talk about ovarian cancer as a thing of the past.
Would love to say that about all cancers one day!

Who thought a question from a grandchild could sound so sweet? "Grandmama, what is cancer?"  And be able to tell that child about a disease that almost sounds make believe. 

Here's to that dream!