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Q: liver cancer cysts

asked by: Ahtisham on December 31st, 2008

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hi i am lookinng for answers about liver cancer. one of my close relative had a ovarian cancer. she had 2 CT scans before but they were all clear. suddenly she had developed a cyst on her liver. Latest CT scans had confirmed it.Can any one help me to know the reasons why Liver cancer had created in few weeks while she had all bloods reports clear.

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MandMs

replied on December 31st, 2008

Extremely eHealthy

Was the nature of liver cyst defined already like ovarian metastasis?

Liver metastases presence is an indicator of advanced ovarian cancer disease (liver metastases usually develop at stage 3 or stage 4 of ovarian cancer).
Since, most of the ovarian cancer cases are found when advance, is it expectable to find metastases soon after the diagnosis of cancer).
Actually, distant metastases can be found either at initial presentation or during the course of ovarian cancer treatment.
Blood work that is usually performed in case of ovarian cancer, is CA-125 test (detecting ovarian cancer antigen),and it's good to know that some women never have elevated values of CA-125, and, that 20% of ovarian cancer patients won't show increase of its concentrations during disease progression.
So, the CA-125 test is always used in combination with other detection methods.

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