Freezing tissue from the ovaries can provide a chance for future fertility and hormone production in children and adults undergoing treatment for cancer or other diseases that affect the ovaries. The ...

Ovarian cysts can be diagnosed with pelvic exams, laparoscopy, and ultrasounds. A transvaginal ultrasound is a common test used to diagnose ovarian cysts and involves inserting a wand into the vagina ...

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If you have ovarian cancer, there’s a good chance that at some point you’ll experience a complication — a problem or side effect of either the disease or treatment. (1) These complications may stem ...

DENVER — Thursday will be recognized as "Wear Teal Day" in Colorado. In Colorado, 330 women are diagnosed with ovarian cancer each year — approximately one Colorado woman every day. Knowing the ...

Ovarian cancer can be deadly because it’s so stealthy. The warning signs are vague. There’s no screening test for women without symptoms, like a mammogram for breast cancer. And it has room to grow in ...

Every October, it seems like there’s a pink ribbon—the universal symbol for breast cancer—everywhere you go. However, most people may not even recognize an ovarian cancer awareness ribbon unless ...

Novel drug combinations that improve outcomes, outstanding questions about treatment sequence, and encouraging results in chemotherapy resistant disease are among the ovarian cancer highlights ...

Ovarian cancer is an abnormal growth of cells or tumors in the ovaries. Some forms of ovarian cancer are more aggressive than others, like high-grade serous ovarian cancer, which is common and ...

Around one in 10 women will develop ovarian cysts at some point during their lives, and while the prospect of a cyst growing on your ovaries could set off alarm bells, they aren’t something you need ...