About 23,000 women pass away due to breast cancer each year in Canada. As Montrealers, we are all concerned with these numbers. However, a lesser known cancer, ovarian cancer, has an impact on the Canadian and Montreal community as well. Don’t be fooled by the numbers, 2,500 cases a year; ovarian cancer is diagnosed after the disease is so far gone that it is fatal.
Ovarian cancer symptoms
- bloating
- frequent urination
- pelvic or abdominal pain
- frequent urination
- problems eating or feeling full quickly
These symptoms are vague and often misdiagnosed and therefore about 80 percent of ovarian cancer goes undetected until it is too late.
Montreal research on ovarian cancer
The project offers early testing for women who are over 50 and have vague symptoms, pelvic and abdominal pain. The good thing is that women can go to their Montreal clinics without a referral. The program has already detected 22 ovarian cancers in 1,455 women tested within the last three years.
The doctor and her team will be opening 12 new clinics in the Montreal area in April.
Wrong name
New research within the past ten years shows ovarian cancer does not start in the ovaries. It starts in the fallopian tubes, and Dr. Gilbert wants the name of the disease changed.
She says, "Put bluntly, we had the name wrong, the staging wrong, and the diagnostic testing wrong. It is no wonder we have lost so many lives to this disease."
Source:
http://www.ctv.ca/CTVNews/Health/20120209/ovarian-cancer-early-testing-120209/#ixzz1n4gympdx
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