Cruz Adrian B.

BSN IV o4 Reaction paper Ovarian cancer is a type of cancer that is characterized by the formation of the cancer cells in the tissues of a womans reproductive glands, the ovaries. It is when normal ovarian cells begin to grow uncontrollably that this cancer develops into dangerous malignant tumors that can be found in one or both ovaries. This is the most common form of this cancer, appearing in about 90 percent of ovarian cancer cases. Of the more rare forms, germ cell tumors originate specifically in the egg-producing cells and the Stromal ovarian cancer in the supportive tissue encasing the ovaries. In women, older age and obesity may increase the likelihood of developing ovarian cancer. Other factors include a personal or family history of this or other types of cancer, women who have taken estrogen after menopause (especially for longer than 5 years), and women who have trouble conceiving. The symptoms that are commonly associated with ovarian cancer are similar to some less serious disorders, but in this case, they may occur more and become more severe. As a modern society we have trouble dealing with cancer. Think of gonorrhea or AIDS as an illness they are fairly straightforward. But our society attaches a great deal of meaning and judgment to cancer as a sickness. Society has much more to say about those who contract it. An illness has medical and scientific dimensions, but as sickness it becomes a phenomenon loaded with cultural and social meaning. Because cancer as an illness is a disease about which very little is actually known it is therefore a sickness around which an enormous # of myths and stories have grown up. Because cancer is poorly understood as a sickness it has assumed awesome proportions in our society. This journal shows the role of the fallopian tube in the development of ovarian cancer. It is within the fallopian tube or oviduct where fertilization normally occurs and where small fingerlike projections called fimbriae, help move the egg into the oviduct. If fertilization does occur, the fertilized egg then travels down through the oviduct into the uterus for implantation. This occurs monthly, and hormone levels rise and fall during this process continually. This process continues throughout the womans life until she reaches menopause, sometimes referred to as the change of life, and her ovaries stop producing and releasing eggs and her hormone levels then become much lower. It is at this time that most women are diagnosed with ovarian cancer, after production of eggs has ceased, but as we know many diseases are unpredictable and this disease can strike at any age. Due to this continual process experts have yet to find an exact cause for the disruption and consequently abnormal shift within this process.