Cancer .... Of course no one wanted to suffer the disease is diagnosed. However, in line with the lifestyle of the modern, the frequency of someone exposed to the possibility of the cancer. One of the most common cancer in women is appearing ovary cancer or carcinoma ovarium. Cancer is difficult to detect in early and often when it has detected a new spread to other organs. New patient experience symptoms that make treatment to the doctor, but this has been delayed so that a death rate higher. Cancer is also called the silent killer because the lady is the highest cause of death in women.
Ovarium organ is a pair of almond-shaped fruit that is on the side of the womb, women, in the near side of the pelvic wall, and located on the back of the ligamentum latum layer in bottom of the back channel of eggs / falopi tuba. Ovarium has a long and 2,5-5,0 cm wide ± 1,5-3,0 cm. Ovarium consists of the outside called the cortex where the gamet (future egg cells) and in the part called the medulla contains many large blood vessel and nerve.
In general, the ovarium function as:
- Of ovum / egg cell is fertilized by the sperm will be developed into potential fetus
- Hormones of estrogen and progesteron that are important to the development of normal female physiology.
Cancer of the ovary can be all women of all ages, ranging from age 20 to 80 years old, rarely occur in women under 21 years old. Eighty percent of cancer appear at the age of 40 years and above when the cancer appears after the menopause almost thirty percent of it is violent. Cancer in the ovary comes from the most epitel ovarium cells in the korteks, can be benign, borderline, or malignant depending on how far the differences between the origin of cancer cells (metaplasia). Based on the origin of cancer cells, ovarium cancer can be divided into:
- Kistadenoma serous
- Kistadenoma musinosum
- Endometrioma
- Mesonephroid clear cell
- Fibroma including tumor benner
- Dermoid cyst
- A mixture of tumor
- Cancer that is not terklasifikasikan
