Does it make sense to remove ovaries and fallopian tubes, sources of ovarian cancers?


If ovarian cancer develops in the ovaries, the female reproductive organs which store eggs and produce hormones, does it make sense to remove the ovaries, together with the layer of cells which cover the ovaries and the abdominal cavity?

Women , as a precaution, have removed breasts to avoid breast cancer.

Does it make sense then to remove ovaries and fallopian tubes which are the sources of ovarian cancers, after child- bearing ages have passed, to avoid the development of ovarian cancer in these sources?

To my knowledge, nowhere have I read the suggestion of removal of ovaries and fallopian tubes to avoid the development of ovarian cancer.

Victor Cino

From the Cancer Center:

What is Ovarian Cancer?

Ovarian cancer develops in the ovaries, the female reproductive organs which store eggs and produce hormones. The most common type of ovarian cancer is epithelial cancer, which originates in the layer of cells that cover the ovaries and the abdominal cavity. This disease accounts for about 85 percent to 90 percent of all ovarian cancer cases.

What is the difference between fallopian tube cancer, peritoneal cancer and ovarian cancer?

The fallopian tubes are thought to be the source of some ovarian cancers. It is rare for cancers to spread from other parts of the body to the fallopian tubes; they typically spread to the ovaries. Peritoneal cancer develops in the peritoneaum, the lining that covers the surface of the ovaries and other organs in the abdominal cavity.

Although thee cancer types difffer in origin and other factors, ovarian, fallopian tube and peritoneal cancers are often treated with the same approach and techniques.

What Causes Ovarian Cancer?

It is not clear why some women develop ovarian cancer while others do not, but the risk of developing the disease increases with age. Other factors which may increase the risk of ovarian cancer include the following:

1. Pregnancy over the age of 35;
2. A history of not carrying a pregnancy to term;
3. Use of fertility drugs;
4. Use of androgens;
5. A family history of ovarian, breast or colorectal canceers;
6. A personal history of breast cancer;
7. A known genetic mutation (e.g. BRCA1 or BRCA2.

An article which appeared in the New York Times on Feb 19, 2018, described how rare types of ovarian cancer were treated with immunotherapy  , and despite doctors' opinions that this treatment would not work , the cancer in four women rapidly shrunk to the point where the cancer basically disappeared and posed no longer an immediate threat.

Patients with ovarian cancer should consult their doctors to discuss this treatment.

Victor Cino

Use of stem cells to strengthen immune system vs cancer

Regarding breast cancer:

There is increasing research on the use of stem cells to help slow the growth of breast cancer by strengthening the immune system in the body..

Surviving Terminal Cancer by Ben A. Williams PH.D.

Doctor Ben Williams, PH.D. has written a book of the same title, Surviving Terminal Cancer.

This book is extraordinary in its clear and hopeful reply to doctors who had given him less than one year to live.

His doctor had refused to allow him to mix a set of chemicals , a cocktail, so to speak , to help beat the cancer.

This set of chemicals Doctor Williams had put together as a result of extensive research he had begun after being given the prognosis of having terminal brain cancer with little time to live.

This story as depicted in his cancer book clearly describes his battle to overcome his own brain cancer, determined to be terminal, and his doctors advice not to utilize his own cocktail of drugs designed by him to kill off his own brain cancer.

Doctor Williams' medical advisers refused to prescribe the drugs for him, and so, he took it upon himself to pull together the drugs he wanted to inject directly into his brain tumor, and did exactly that, having nothing to lose, since he had already been given a medical death sentence.

Within three to six months, his brain tumor began to shrink!

After six months, Doctor Williams began to recover his energy and strength and found the tumor's continuing shrinkage to be a great sign that he was on the right track to eliminate and destroy the cancer in his brain.

After one year, the tumor had disappeared. It has been in excess of eight years in which Doctor Williams has been cancer free.

His doctors called it an anomaly; however, Doctor Williams is convinced that the cocktail of cancer fighting drugs he created was directly responsible for the tumor's destruction.

I urge you to read his book, Surviving "Terminal" Cancer for great information , a result of considerable research by Doctor Williams, and hope for all brain tumor patients.

The Weisenthal Cancer Group

This lab, The Weisenthal Cancer Group is based in California. Its address is 16512 Burke Lane, Huntington Beach, California, 92646.

One of its functions is to test cancer tissue and cancer fluid to determine a match of chemicals which would be found to be sensitive to the cancer in question.

More information may be found on their website. Just Google it, or call them for additional information at 714-894-0011.

I found Doctor Larry Weisenthal an extremely caring physician, very bright and  very considerate of the needs of his clients.

Victor Cino

917-923-6193

BE WARY OF CLINICAL TRIALS.

 

Clinical trials are designed to test  new chemicals on cancer patients. Chemical companies want to test a new drug and its effects on human beings. The drug may have worked on mice; but clinical trials allow doctors , with written approval of cancer patients, to test the new drug on them. A doctor may state that there is very little one can do for them at this point in their treatment, but here is a drug which may prolong their lives, or perhaps prevent death. Do not be snowed by soft talk to convince you to go into a clinical trial without serious investigation of the drug on your part!

 

Be certain that you ask a number of questions before you sign on to such a trial. Certainly be wary if a doctor suddenly after telling you how dire your situation is calls in a nurse administrator prepared with documents for you to sign on to the clinical trial. Do not sign any documents the first day a doctor suggests to you entry into a clinical trial! Get home and start doing your homework!

 

Ask questions: What is the drug? How many other patients have taken this drug? What are side effects on  patients who have taken this drug? Will this new drug cause bowel constriction? Is there risk of permanent irreversible damage to organs? How long has the drug been available for clinical trials? Ask doctor if he or she has a standing relationship with any chemical companies to use the manufacturer's drug and are they getting paid to use these drugs in clinical trials or on patients who may not be aware these are experimental drugs.

 

In addition, once a doctor recommends a clinical trial, get a second, third and fourth opinion from other specialists in the field. Be sure to review the credentials of each doctor. Do not take for granted any information provided by your doctor. Make sure you follow up with specific questions. Most of all, one needs to explore all and every option of cancer treatment out there. Do not be concerned about going to another country. Canada hospitals have come a long way in the application of ozone treatment, and my priest has been cured of pancreatic cancer from the application of ozone treatment.

 

One has to be one's own manager of his or her disease. Take the example of Fran Drescher, whose book has been addressed on this blog. She checked eight doctors before she got the answer she wanted: the correct one. She was correctly diagnosed with uterine cancer.

 

In short, cancer is a complicated disease with hundreds and perhaps thousands of mutations. No doctor knows how  cancer arises; so be on the alert and ask lots of questions.