Health Alert: Most Ovarian Cancer Patients Receive Inadequate Care

Study finds women miss out on treatments that could add year to their lives

Are you a woman with HPV? Do you know a woman who has it? Well, get ready to forward this information! Most women with ovarian cancer, which is said to be caused by the sexually-transmitted HPV, receive inadequate care and miss out on treatments that could extend their lives by a year or more, a new study has found. Experts have long been concerned with a pervasive diagnosis problem – about 22,000 new cases of ovarian cancer are diagnosed annually, but most of them aren’t discovered until an advanced stage when aggressive treatment is needed. The disease kills 15,000 per year in the U.S. and about 200,000 worldwide. “If we could just make sure that women get to the people who are trained to take care of them, the impact would be much greater than that of any new chemotherapy drug or biological agent,” said Dr. Robert E. Bristow, the lead author of the new study, presented Monday at a meeting of the Society of Gynecologic Oncology in Los Angeles. (New York Times)

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