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Women's Health News


Why ovarian cancer still takes too long to diagnose, and why that has to change
Every year, thousands of women are told they have a suspicious ovarian mass. It's a sentence that changes everything in an instant, and for most of them, the only way to find out what it actually means is surgery. It's the part after that people are often surprised to learn. A large proportion of women who undergo surgery for a suspicious ovarian mass turn out not to have cancer at all [1]. The mass was benign. The surgery, with all its risks, recovery time and emotional weig
Sep 114 min read
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