Ovarian Cancer Resources

Ovarian Cancer is the fifth leading cause of cancer in women. With this fact in mind, I wanted to provide a few resources that can help you better understand the symptoms of ovarian cancer and how you can get yourself checked.

This link provides general information about ovarian cancer and informs readers about specifics regarding ovarian cancer.

This link is a study from the National Center for Biotechnology Information on the diagnostic performance of the CA-125 blood test for the detection of Ovarian Cancer as well as other crucial gynecological diseases in primary care.

This link is an article from MD Anderson on the effectiveness of the CA-125 blood test as a standard of care.

This link is to the Barbara T. Foundation's website where the statistics on Ovarian Cancer are summarized, and it also has a link for Genetic Counselors for the testing for BRCA1 and BRCA2 mutations that predispose women to ovarian cancer.