Ovarian Cancer Screening
Ovarian Cancer Screening
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Better ways to screen for ovarian cancer are being researched, but currently, there are no reliable screening tests.
Older women are at the highest risk of developing ovarian cancer. Most deaths from ovarian cancer occur in women age 55 and older, and half of all ovarian cancers are found in women 63 or older.
Risk factors for developing ovarian cancer include any of the following:
- Obesity
- Smoking and excessive alcohol use
- Having first child after age 35
- Fertility treatments
- Inability to carry any pregnancy to term
- Family history of ovarian cancer, breast or cervical cancer (due to defects in the BRCA1 or BRCA2 genes)
- Estrogen replacement therapy without the use of progesterone for 5 years or more
- Having had breast cancer
Learn more about ovarian cancer risk factors,
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Dr. Guilherme Cantuaria sees patients at:
University Gynecologic Oncology - Atlanta
960 Johnson Ferry Road NE
Suite 130
Atlanta, GA 30342
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