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[edit] "Victims"? Is this the correct word?

A more sensitive word would be "facing" - facing ovarian cancer / faced ovarian cancer thanks SionBrown 02:13, 11 November 2006 (UTC)

Most people I know who have (or have had) cancer prefer survivor. --Una Smith 02:37, 1 July 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Famous patients

This page has developed a list of "famous patients". Unfortunately there is no policy as to which cases are significant enough to mention here. I think someone without a Wiki page whose disease has not been mentioned in the national press does not qualify for inclusion here. Otherwise we'd have to mention all those numerous anonymous women worldwide whose suffering has not made headlines.

I am mordicus against mentioning people's disease stage. This is meaningless to non-patients, almost voyeuristic and of no encyclopedic relevance. I also urge contributors to avoid dramatic terminology ("battling cancer"). Without being insensitive to the obvious suffering, it promulgates the stigma that every cancer patient is in tremendous distress, quod non. JFW | T@lk 13:42, 25 December 2005 (UTC)

I removed a few women without their own Wikipedia pages, which suggests they themselves are possibly not notable, let alone their (private) illness. Not every case of cancer makes the headlines. JFW | T@lk 10:43, 4 January 2006 (UTC)

"Victims"? Is this the correct word? Especially as some of those listed have survived. Will change it soon if no objections here. --Mongreilf 20:57, 4 July 2006 (UTC)

i don't mean to be a bummer to whomever put that list here, because obviously it involved a lot of work and their intentions were only good--but it's not really standard for cancer articles, and it makes this article really long. maybe there should be a separate article on ovarian cancer patients? (that could be a good place for links to support groups and listservs, etc., too.) Cindery 20:43, 26 August 2006 (UTC)

If it gets any bigger, I'd certainly support moving it to a new page. Nunquam Dormio 09:04, 27 August 2006 (UTC)
What happened to this list of famous women with ovarian cancer? It appears to have been deleted? anyone mind if I re-add it? QuizzicalBee 16:13, 7 February 2007 (UTC)

I agree that the list is long and a tangent from the article. I will move the list to list of notable survivors of ovarian cancer. --Una Smith 22:34, 15 July 2007 (UTC)

[edit] missing characters

An analysis in 1991 raised the possibility that use of drugs tation may increase the risk for ovarian cancer.

Anyone like to hazard a guess at what's been deleted here? Flapdragon 16:09, 1 March 2006 (UTC)

[edit] ref system all screwy

1,2,3,4 do not link to 1,2,3,4/+ there are inline cites. I'm not sure how to fix. Cindery 20:57, 26 August 2006 (UTC)

The former reference 3 wasn't actually referred to in the text. Whatever referred to it must have been deleted some time ago. I've changed some references to inline format, but more still needs to be done.

[edit] CLEANUP: Germ cell tumors

Some text on Germ cell ovarian cancer belongs here, and some text here belongs on germ cell tumor. --Una Smith 02:42, 1 July 2007 (UTC)

[edit] text from Germ cell ovarian cancer

The following paragraphs from Germ cell ovarian cancer are copied here because there may be some tidbit of contradictory information in them, or they need a supporting citation, so I prefer not to put them in the article. --Una Smith 22:22, 5 July 2007 (UTC)

There are three main types of ovarian cancer.

Although 20% to 25% of all benign and malignant ovarian neoplasms are of germ cell origin, only about 3% of these tumors are malignant. Germ cell malignancies account for less than 5% of all ovarian cancers in Western countries but they represent up to 15% of ovarian cancers in Asian and black societies, where epithelial ovarian cancers are much less common.

In contrast to epithelial ovarian neoplasms, most germ cell neoplasms are early stage at the time of diagnosis. This observation, in conjunction with the low incidence of bilaterality and the young age of most patients, for whom future fertility is an issue, influences the surgical management of this group of neoplasms. For young women with a germ cell neoplasm of the ovary, removal of the involved adnexa with preservation of the normal-appearing contralateral adnexa and uterus is generally advocated. In view of the low incidence of bilaterality, biopsy or bivalving the contralateral ovary is not recommended because of the risk of peritubal and periovarian adhesions. Complete surgical staging of germ cell neoplasms is the same as for epithelial ovarian neoplasms and should be performed in all cases.

Most patients with advanced-stage germ cell malignancies or high-risk early-stage disease can be cured with combination chemotherapy. Bleomycin, etoposide, and cisplatin are most commonly used.

With respect to germ cell neoplasms, radiation therapy has been used successfully in the treatment of patients with dysgerminoma.

[edit] text from Talk:Ovarian neoplasm

one of the factors that causes infertility -- 219.95.192.56, 15:24, 15 April 2006 (

[edit] text from Endodermal sinus tumor

Almost all ovarian endodermal sinus tumors occur in women under the age of 30. Patients usually present with sudden onset pain and a large pelvic mass. There is spread to the peritoneum or lymph nodes in 30-70% of cases.

[edit] Ovarian cancer symptoms

I restored paragraph that summarizes original studies on the accuracy of symptoms. This paragraph was delete by user:OCNA (see http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Ovarian_cancer&diff=next&oldid=142310453) when they put in the Consensus statement. I also added a reference and link to the full text of the statement.Badgettrg 21:15, 19 July 2007 (UTC)

[edit] WikiProject class rating

This article was automatically assessed because at least one WikiProject had rated the article as start, and the rating on other projects was brought up to start class. BetacommandBot 22:02, 9 November 2007 (UTC)

[edit] This article

This article needs to be continually monitored by individuals with some writing and research ability, and hopefully some medical knowledge (I recommend User:Alison) because I have found blatant conjecture and broad statements posing as facts, at least one of which contradicted other text (to wit that ovarian cancer is not "a silent killer", which is nonsense). This is one disease you don't want to play around with or disrespect. 216.194.20.241 22:21, 9 November 2007 (UTC)

[edit] External links

"* Ovarian cancer at the Open Directory Project" -the link is broken...Any suggestions on how to repair it? MeganFenstermaker (talk) 22:12, 26 December 2007 (UTC)

Sure, just go to dmoz.org and enter "ovarian cancer" in the search box. That leads you to this category. I'll fix the bad link in the article. --Una Smith (talk) 23:34, 26 December 2007 (UTC)
Actually, the problem is not the link but the "DMOZ" template in which the link is embedded; the template adds a final slash, so the link text must omit the slash. --Una Smith (talk) 23:40, 26 December 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Ginger

The very reference used to back the outlandish ginger section itself says, "U-M researchers do not recommend taking ginger as treatment for cancer. Please talk to your oncologist before taking any dietary or herbal supplements." This article severely misrepresented the research, and in my opinion it is much better to leave this rather minor (though popular) research out of the article than to have it misrepresented so. Antelan talk 06:18, 27 December 2007 (UTC)

Hm. I think it would be better to explain accurately the research results. --Una Smith (talk) 17:34, 27 December 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Inclusion in Article? (diagnosis)

Was curious if this updated research would be useful in the entry for Ovarian Cancer. I haven't looked up the article on pubmed yet. Will be printed on the 15th.

"Researchers at Yale School of Medicine have developed a blood test with enough sensitivity and specificity to detect early stage ovarian cancer with 99 percent accuracy." See Press Release

"Results of this new study are published in the February 15 issue of the journal Clinical Cancer Research. The results build on work done by the same Yale group in 2005 showing 95 percent effectiveness of a blood test using four proteins." —Preceding unsigned comment added by JasonSpradlin82 (talk • contribs) 21:52, 12 February 2008 (UTC)

First read the article, then decide. "Ovarian cancer" is several different cancers, that happen to occur in the ovary. This makes early diagnosis a complex problem. --Una Smith (talk) 04:36, 13 February 2008 (UTC)
Hmmm... Good Point... I'm no Ovarian Cancer expert, so I was hoping adding it to the discussion might bring it to the attention of somebody who might be. It does reference epithelial ovarian cancer. This article was regarding Phase II, in which they boosted the accuracy from 95% to 99.4% accuracy. It doesn't say that it only finds epithelial ovarian cancer, but rather says tells how dangerous epithelial is. Also, it doesn't just find out if you have cancer, but rather it detects 99.4% of new tumors.
Again, I'm not a doctor, so I'm not sure if this is of interest to the article. -JasonSpradlin82 (talk) 00:23, 14 February 2008 (UTC)
Sounds like the article concerns surface epithelial-stromal tumor, not ovarian tumors in general. WT:MED is the place to ask for help. --Una Smith (talk) 19:20, 14 February 2008 (UTC)