Stages of ovarian cancer

We try to express the level of lead from cancer, the disease is widespread. As treatment is crucial especially depending on stage the cancer is decided. Ovarian cancer, doctors use a simple system called provisional system IV of FIGO (International Federation of Gynecology and obstetrics).



Stage indicates that about ovaries cancer is limited. In stage IA, cancer is in an ovary, limited, while there is cancer in both ovaries in IB. In stage IC, cancer is in addition to the ovaries of one or both, may be present; obtained from cancer cells on the outside surface of one or both ovaries or fluid in the abdomen or the outer wall of a cystic ovarian tumor may have burst.



We believe that this stage of cancer II is outside of the ovary or ovaries, but is within the basin. Phase reaches IIA fallopian tube cancer or uterine cancer meant for IIB to other tissues in the basin, such as the bladder or the rectum. Stage IIC indicates that in stages IIA and IIB, some tumors on the surface of at least one ovary are present or are collected the cancer cells in the fluid in the abdomen during surgery or the ovary before or during breaks.



Phase III means that the tumor has spread outside pelvis in the abdominal cavity. Phase III is also, if cancer is found in the lymph nodes in the abdomen, neural diseases engine behind the uterus or higher. Phase of tissue clock IIIA cancer under a microscope by growth in the lining of the abdomen are the lining of the abdomen, in IIIB, small tumor. Growths are greater than 2 cm in the lining of the abdomen IIIC; They include nodes lymph in the abdomen, upper motor neuronal diseases or behind cancer of the uterus.



Phase IV, the most advanced, means that other organs such as liver or lung cancer has spread.