Serous ovarian carcinoma in patients with Lynch syndrome: Caution is warranted

Age is associated with prognosis in serous ovarian carcinoma

PURPOSE The survival duration of elderly patients with epithelial ovarian carcinoma is shorter than that of their younger counterparts. This variation in survival duration is likely attributed to differences in the distribution of histological type or grade, International Federation of Gynecology and Obstetrics (FIGO) staging, and undertreatment, but this observation remains controversial. This...

Is Reducing Ovarian Volume in Polycystic Ovarian Syndrome Patients after Administration of Metformin Associated with Improving Cardiovascular Risk Factors

Advances in serous tubal intraepithelial carcinoma: correlation with high grade serous carcinoma and ovarian carcinogenesis.

Early serous carcinoma in fallopian tube or serous tubal intraepithelial carcinoma (STIC), an early lesion limited to the epithelium of the fallopian tube and firstly identified from specimen obtained by prophylactic salpingo-oophorectomy, has provided insight into pelvic high grade serous carcinoma (HGSC). Increasing evidence indicates that STIC is a likely precursor for HGSC and several studi...

A young nulliparous woman with right ovarian serous borderline tumor and left ovarian micropapillary serous carcinoma

Introduction: serous borderline tumor (sbt) of low malignant potential (LMP) is heterogeneous group, neither wholly benign nor frankly malignant. It usually involves premenopausal age patients, has good prognosis and may recur even after 20 years. Decades later, transformation to low grade serous carcinoma can occur in 7%, mandating prolonged follow-up. ten and 20 years survival in stage I is 9...

Evaluation of Homocysteine Levels in Patients with Polycystic Ovarian Syndrome