Breast Cancer Ovarian Cancer - 1359 Words

Ovarian cancer occurs in the ovaries but is hard to detect when the cancer is still in the first stage. There are many ways of treatment to cure ovarian cancer but is also costly. AJ is a young women who have ovarian cancer. She will undergo tests if she is positive for ovarian cancer. Survival rate are high so AJ might have a chance to be a survivor of ovarian cancer just like her mom. In this case will showing how a young girl found out that she have ovarian cancer and the treatments that she can use. A case manager will be trying to figure out how to save this young girl from dying. With having ovarian cancer rate the sixth highest cancer for women is quite alarming. However, the survival rate is going higher to tell that there is many†¦show more content†¦AJ been having pelvic exams is â€Å"a short procedures, during which your doctors checks your vulva, vagina, cervix, uterus, rectum, and pelvis, including ovaries† to see if there is any other abnormalities (Mayo Clinic Staff). During the exam, AJ’s gynecologist found out that there was a mass on her right ovary. To better know what it could be, more laboratory work up. To find out that there was a mass in AJ right ovaries, her gynecologist used a transvaginal ultrasound. A transvaginal ultrasound is an internal examination that uses high frequency sound waves to look at the uterus, fall opian tubes, ovaries, cervix, and vagina (Health line). As there was more laboratory needed, AJ’s gynecologist ordered a CA-125 assay of her blood sample (Prime). Which was the test that measure the amount of the protein CA-125, cancer antigen 125, in in her blood. All that was left to do was to wait and see if the result would come in positive or not. . As days went by, AJ went to her gynecologist to discuss her lab results. The physician who was studying AJ’s lab result had some concerning news. He told AJ that in her ovary did not have a mass, but something else. A cyst is an abnormal sac-like structures within a tissue that contain a liquid, gaseous, or semisolid (Medicine New). The physician told AJ that instead of having a cyst, she have a tumor in her ovary. A tumor is like an abnormal growth that raises from